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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
It's a bot/bridge you can use to forward emails to Matrix rooms.
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

## Adjusting the playbook configuration
### Networking

Open the following ports on your server to be able to receive incoming emails:

- `25/tcp`: SMTP
- `587/tcp`: Submission (TLS-encrypted SMTP)

If you don't open these ports, you will still be able to send emails, but not receive any.

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

Add the following configuration to your `inventory/host_vars/matrix.DOMAIN/vars.yml` file:

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# Generate a strong password here. Consider generating it with `pwgen -s 64 1`
matrix_bot_postmoogle_password: PASSWORD_FOR_THE_BOT

# 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'
```

You will also need to add several DNS records so that postmoogle can send emails.
### DNS

You will also need to add several DNS records so that Postmoogle can send emails.
See [Configuring DNS](configuring-dns.md).


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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

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'
```

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# A list of admins
# Example set of rules:
# matrix_bot_postmoogle_admins:
# - @someone:example.com
# - @another:example.com
# - @bot.*:example.com
# - @*:another.com
# - '@someone:example.com'
# - '@another:example.com'
# - '@bot.*:example.com'
# - '@*:another.com'
matrix_bot_postmoogle_admins: "{{ [matrix_admin] if matrix_admin else [] }}"

# Sentry DSN. Deprecated, use matrix_bot_postmoogle_monitoring_sentry_dsn


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