mailcow: dockerized - Ansible role 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕

This role will setup a mailcow dockerized email server.

Prerequisites

• Up and running Ubuntu/Debian host (other distributions not supported/tested for now)

Requirements

Requirements	Description
docker ce	Docker has to be installed on the host
docker-compose	docker-compose is needed

Notes

This role will use by default the inventory_hostname as mailcow hostname, this means that you have to use the full qualified domain name as your inventory hostname e.g. mail.mailcow.tld or you set mailcow__hostname to the correct FQDN.

Variables

name	purpose	default value	note
mailcow__hostname	sets MAILCOW_HOSTNAME	inventory_hostname	needs to be an full qualified domain name
mailcow__install_path	sets the path where the mailcow-dockerized repo will be cloned	/opt/mailcow-dockerized
mailcow__git_version	checkout a specific version of mailcow	master
mailcow__timezone	used to set the timezone your mailcow runs in during the config generation	not set	must be set
mailcow__docker_compose_project_name	sets the docker-compose projectname to a user-defined string	mailcowdockerized
mailcow__theme	set the default mailcow theme in vars.local.inc.php	lumen
mailcow__config_http_port	sets HTTP_PORT in mailcow.conf	80
mailcow__config_http_bind	sets HTTP_BIND in mailcow.conf	0.0.0.0
mailcow__config_https_port	sets HTTPS_PORT in mailcow.conf	443
mailcow__config_https_bind	sets HTTPS_BIND in mailcow.conf	0.0.0.0
mailcow__config_acl_anyone	sets ACL_ANYONE	disallow
mailcow__config_maildir_gc_time	sets MAILDIR_GC_TIME in mailcow.conf	1440
mailcow__config_additional_san	sets ADDITIONAL_SAN in mailcow.conf		needs to be a list
mailcow__config_skip_lets_encrypt	sets SKIP_LETS_ENCRYPT in mailcow.conf
mailcow__config_enable_ssl_sni	sets ENABLE_SSL_SNI in mailcow.conf
mailcow__config_skip_ip_check	sets SKIP_IP_CHECK in mailcow.conf
mailcow__config_skip_http_verification	sets SKIP_HTTP_VERIFICATION in mailcow.conf	n
mailcow__config_skip_clamd	sets SKIP_CLAMD in mailcow.conf	n
mailcow__config_skip_solr	sets SKIP_SOLR in mailcow.conf	n
mailcow__config_solr_heap	sets SOLR_HEAP in mailcow.conf	1024
mailcow__config_skip_sogo	sets SKIP_SOGO in mailcow.conf	n
mailcow__config_allow_admin_email_login	sets ALLOW_ADMIN_EMAIL_LOGIN in mailcow.conf	n
mailcow__config_use_watchdog	sets USE_WATCHDOG in mailcow.conf	n
mailcow__config_watchdog_notify_email	sets WATCHDOG_NOTIFY_EMAIL in mailcow.conf
mailcow__config_watchdog_notify_ban	sets WATCHDOG_NOTIFY_BAN in mailcow.conf	y
mailcow__config_log_lines	sets LOG_LINES in mailcow.conf	9999
mailcow__config_sogo_expire_session	sets SOGO_EXPIRE_SESSION in mailcow.conf	480
mailcow__install_updates	if yes the mailcow ansible role will also update an existing installation	yes
mailcow__redirect_http_to_https	if yes, all requests via HTTP will be redirected to HTTPS	no	also see https://mailcow.github.io/mailcow-dockerized-docs/u_e-80_to_443/

Usage

Minimal playbook:

---

- name: Install Python3
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: false
  roles:
    - { role: raw,0.0, vars: {command: 'apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip'} }

- name: Main Playbook
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: true
  vars:
    mailcow__timezone: Europe/Berlin
  roles:
    - Ansible-Roles.docker-ce
    - Ansible-Roles.docker-compose
    - Ansible-Roles.mailcow