postfix-formula

A SaltStack formula to install and configure Postfix mail server.

Table of Contents

General notes

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If you want to use this formula, please pay attention to the FORMULA file and/or git tag, which contains the currently released version. This formula is versioned according to Semantic Versioning.

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Contributing to this repo

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Available states

postfix

Installs and starts postfix SMTP server

postfix.config

Manages postfix main.cf and optionally the master.cf configuration file

postfix.policyd-spf

Installs and configures policyd-spf

postfix.postgrey

Installs and starts Postgrey service

postfix.mysql

Installs postfix mysql package ( Debian only)

postfix.pcre

Installs postfix pcre package ( Debian only)

postfix.postsrsd

Installs postfix postsrsd package

Testing

Linux testing is done with kitchen-salt.

Requirements

• Ruby
• Docker

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install
$ bin/kitchen test [platform]

Where [platform] is the platform name defined in kitchen.yml, e.g. debian-9-2019-2-py3.

bin/kitchen converge

Creates the docker instance and runs the main state(s), ready for testing.

bin/kitchen verify

Runs the inspec tests on the actual instance.

bin/kitchen destroy

Removes the docker instance.

bin/kitchen test

Runs all of the stages above in one go: i.e. destroy + converge + verify + destroy.

bin/kitchen login

Gives you SSH access to the instance for manual testing.