Chef Mailcatcher Cookbook

Description

This cookbook is an amalgamation of the mailcatcher cookbooks made by andruby and bryantebeek. It installs a single configurable instance of mailcatcher and installs/configures postfix.

Attributes

This cookbook contains the following attributes:

Key	Type	Description	Default
['mailcatcher']['version']	String	The version of the MailCatcher gem to install	nil (defaults to latest version available)
['mailcatcher']['mailcatcher']['name']	String	The name of the MailCatcher binary file	mailcatcher
['mailcatcher']['mailcatcher']['bin']	String	The location of the MailCatcher binary file	/usr/local/bin/mailcatcher
['mailcatcher']['smtp_ip']	String	The ip address of the smtp server	127.0.0.1
['mailcatcher']['smtp_port']	Integer	The port of the smtp server	1025
['mailcatcher']['http_ip']	String	The ip address of the http server	0.0.0.0
['mailcatcher']['http_port']	Integer	The port of the http server	1080
['mailcatcher']['logfile']	String	The location of the log file	/var/log/mailcatcher.log
['mailcatcher']['use_postfix']	Boolean	Install postfix as mail relay	true
['postfix']['hostname']	String	The default hostname	localhost-vagrant
['postfix']['relayhost']	String	The relay host address	127.0.0.1:1025

Usage

chef-mailcatcher::default

Include chef-mailcatcher in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[chef-mailcatcher::default]"
  ]
}

Supported Platforms

Tested on:

• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 14.04
• Debian 7.8
• Centos 7.0
• Fedora 21

Let me know if any other platforms are compatible and I'll add them to the list.

WARNING: For now, the systemd scripts are only lightly tested. If you are using a distro that is using systemd (ex. Fedora 21 or Ubuntu 15), use with caution, and please inform me if anything isn't working properly.

License and Authors

Author: SPINEN ([email protected])

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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