msmtp cookbook

The msmtp cookbook installs the SMTP client msmtp.

Platform Support

• Debian

Attributes

• node['msmtp']['host'] - String. SMTP smarthost.
• node['msmtp']['port'] - Integer. override the mail submission port instead of SMTP port 25.
• node['msmtp']['auth'] - String. authentication enabled. Valid configurations "on", "off".
• node['msmtp']['user'] - String. user to authenticate as to SMTP server.
• node['msmtp']['password'] - String. This stores the password directly in the file. It's generally not recommended to store passwords in plain text files.
• node['msmtp']['from'] - String. Envelope-from address.
• node['msmtp']['aliases'] - Hash. List of forwarding email address.

Recipes

• msmtp::default - Installs msmtp-mta package, configures /etc/msmtprc and /etc/aliases.msmtp.

Usage

msmtp::default recipe

Include the msmtp::default in your run_list and in your wrapper cookbook ensure that you have the appropriate attributes configured.

    "msmtp": {
      "host": "localhost",
      "port": 587,
      "auth": "on", # on|off
      "user": "mailer",
      "password": "changeme",
      "from": "mailer@localhost",
      "aliases": {
        "root": "admin@example.net"
      }
    }

License

MIT