Installs Mailpit, an email testing tool for developers, on RedHat or Debian-based linux systems. Mailpit acts as both an SMTP server, and provides a web interface to view all captured emails. Mailpit is inspired by MailHog, but much, much faster.

This role is based on https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-mailhog

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

sendmail_path = "{{ mailpit_install_dir }}/mailpit sendmail"

A Debian-based (eg: Ubuntu) or RedHat system running systemd.

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

mailpit_install_dir: /opt/mailpit

The directory into which the MailHog binary will be installed.

mailpit_version: 1.3.8

The version of Mailpit that will be installed. You can find the latest version by visiting the Mailpit project releases page.

mailpit_release_url: "https://github.com/axllent/mailpit/releases/download/v{{ mailpit_version }}/mailhog-linux-amd64"

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - { role: roots.mailpit }

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