Ansible Role: MailHog

Installs MailHog, a Go-based SMTP server and web UI/API for displaying captured emails, on RedHat or Debian-based linux systems.

Also installs mhsendmail so you can redirect system mail to MailHog's built-in SMTP server.

If you're using PHP and would like to route all PHP email into MailHog, you will need to update the sendmail_path configuration option in php.ini, like so:

sendmail_path = "{{ mailhog_install_dir }}/mhsendmail"

(Replace {{ mailhog_install_dir }} with the actual MailHog installation directory, which is /opt/mailhog by default—e.g. /opt/mailhog/mhsendmail).

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

mailhog_install_dir: /opt/mailhog

The directory into which the MailHog binary will be installed.

mailhog_binary_url: https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/releases/download/v0.2.0/MailHog_linux_amd64

The MailHog binary that will be installed. You can find the latest version or a 32-bit version by visiting the MailHog project releases page.

mailhog_daemonize_bin_path: /usr/sbin/daemonize

The path to daemonize, which is used to launch MailHog via init script.

mhsendmail_binary_url: https://github.com/mailhog/mhsendmail/releases/download/v0.2.0/mhsendmail_linux_amd64

The mhsendmail binary that will be installed. You can find the latest version or a 32-bit version by visiting the mhsendmail project releases page.

Dependencies

• geerlingguy.daemonize

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.mailhog }

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.