| @@ -5,25 +5,22 @@ | |||
| The playbook can install and configure [Postmoogle](https://gitlab.com/etke.cc/postmoogle) for you. | |||
| It's a bot/bridge you can use to forward emails to Matrix rooms. | |||
| Postmoogle runs an email server through SMTP and allaws you to create mailboxes to the domain you define in the DNS settings. | |||
| Postmoogle runs an SMTP email server and allows you to assign mailbox addresses to Matrix rooms. | |||
| See the project's [documentation](https://gitlab.com/etke.cc/postmoogle) to learn what it does and why it might be useful to you. | |||
| ## Prerequisites | |||
| ### Ports | |||
| ### Networking | |||
| Open the following ports on your server to be able to receive incoming emails: | |||
| Open the following ports to your server (without it you will not recive email, but you can still send): | |||
| - `25/tcp`: SMTP | |||
| - `587/tcp`: TLS-encrypted SMTP | |||
| - `587/tcp`: Submission (TLS-encrypted SMTP) | |||
| You can change the above default ports through the following variables in the playbook: | |||
| If you don't open these ports, you will still be able to send emails, but not receive any. | |||
| ```yaml | |||
| # on-host ports | |||
| matrix_bot_postmoogle_smtp_host_bind_port: '25' | |||
| matrix_bot_postmoogle_submission_host_bind_port: '587' | |||
| ``` | |||
| These port numbers are configurable via the `matrix_bot_postmoogle_smtp_host_bind_port` and `matrix_bot_postmoogle_submission_host_bind_port` variables, but other email servers will try to deliver on these default (standard) ports, so changing them is of little use. | |||
| ### Adjusting the playbook configuration | |||
| @@ -38,16 +35,20 @@ matrix_bot_postmoogle_enabled: true | |||
| # Generate a strong password here. Consider generating it with `pwgen -s 64 1` | |||
| matrix_bot_postmoogle_password: PASSWORD_FOR_THE_BOT | |||
| ``` | |||
| Add an admin to Postmoogle with: | |||
| ```yaml | |||
| matrix_bot_postmoogle_admins: | |||
| - '@yourAdminAccount:domain.com' | |||
| # Uncomment to add one or more admins to this bridge: | |||
| # | |||
| # matrix_bot_postmoogle_admins: | |||
| # - '@yourAdminAccount:domain.com' | |||
| # | |||
| # .. unless you've made yourself an admin of all bridges like this: | |||
| # | |||
| # matrix_admin: '@yourAdminAccount:domain.com' | |||
| ``` | |||
| ### DNS | |||
| You will also need to add several DNS records so that postmoogle can send emails. | |||
| You will also need to add several DNS records so that Postmoogle can send emails. | |||
| See [Configuring DNS](configuring-dns.md). | |||
| @@ -77,10 +78,11 @@ Send `!pm help` to the room to see the bot's help menu for additional commands. | |||
| You can also refer to the upstream [documentation](https://gitlab.com/etke.cc/postmoogle). | |||
| ### Debug/Logs | |||
| In case you need to debug declare: | |||
| As with all other services, you can find their logs in [systemd-journald](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service.html) by running something like `journalctl -fu matrix-bot-postmoogle` | |||
| The default logging level for this bridge is `INFO`, but you can increase it to `DEBUG` with the following additional configuration: | |||
| ```yaml | |||
| matrix_bot_postmoogle_loglevel: 'DEBUG' | |||
| ``` | |||
| And access it through `journalctl -fu matrix-bot-postmoogle` | |||