puppet-sendmail

Puppet module for managing sendmail configuration.

Table of Contents

1. Overview - What is the sendmail module?

Overview

This module manages and confgiures the sendmail agent.

Parameters

• sendmail_mc_template: path to the sendmail.mc template
• smart_host: the smtp outgoing server
• smtp_port: the smtp port
• exposed_user: the username to be displayed instead of the masquerade name
• masquerade_as: this causes mail being sent to be labeled as coming from the indicated host.domain
• masquerade_envelope: if masquerading is enabled or the genericstable is in use, set this parameter to true to also masquerade envelopes, normally only the header addresses are masqueraded
• masquerade_entire_domain: set this to true if you need all hosts within the masquerading domains to be rewritten to the masquerade name
• masquerade_domain: the effect of this is that although mail to user@otherhost.domain will not be delivered locally, any mail including any user@otherhost.domain will, when relayed, be rewritten to have the masquerade_as address; this can be a space-separated list of names
• rootmail: mail address for the root user, default is undef
• aliases: hash of aliases. Example: { 'user' => 'email' }
• generics_domains: list of domains to serve. Example: [ 'domain1.com', 'domain2.com' }
• generics_table: hash of user email addresses for multiple domains. Example: { 'user', 'email' }
• auth_user: SMTP user, not used for authentication
• auth_email: SMTP email (username)
• auth_password: SMTP password

Usage

Example

This is and example of setting up the sendmail agent using the default configuration.

Using the sendmail module

class { 'sendmail': }

Contributors

• https://github.com/desalvo/puppet-sendmail/graphs/contributors

Release Notes

0.1.3

• Support for authorization

0.1.2

• Template fix

0.1.1

• Fix for path to the make command

0.1.0

• Initial version