Provision LDAP mail users and distribution groups

The LDAP mail roles in this Playbook provision both LDAP mail users and distribution groups.

Prepare

Create the ldap virtualenv.

mkvirtualenv ldap; pip install -r requirements.txt

LDAP Mail accounts

Provision LDAP mail account and send welcome email

ansible-playbook --check --diff --ask-vault-pass main.yml --tags "mailuser,email"

Run Playbook but do not include welcome email

ansible-playbook --check --diff --ask-vault-pass main.yml --tags "mailuser"

Run Playbook but only send welcome email

ansible-playbook --check --diff main.yml --tags "email,welcome"

Pass basic info with variables

ansible-playbook ... --extra-vars "firstname=Jon lastname=Doe ldap_mail_username=jdoe ldap_mail_userdomain=example.email"

LDAP Mail distribution groups

Provision LDAP mail group

ansible-playbook --check --diff main.yml --ask-vault-pass --tags "mailgroup" --extra-vars "mailgroup=mygroup groupdomain=example.email"

Mail distribution group members are defined by the mail user's email address within the mailGroupMember attribute, respectively. Mail distribution groups can also be nested group members.

LDAP

This Playbook makes use of Ansible Vault to encrypt and store the LDAP admin password string in a variable named ldap_admin_password

ansible-vault encrypt_string 'secretpw' --name 'ldap_admin_password'

The supported LDAP mail attributes provisioned with this Playbook require postfix-book.schema to be loaded with an LDAP backend server such as OpenLDAP.

objectClass	attributes
PostfixBookMailAccount	mail
PostfixBookMailForward	mailAlias
	mailHomeDirectory
	mailStorageDirectory
	mailUidNumber
	mailGidNumber
	mailEnabled
	mailGroupMember
	mailQuota
	mailSieveRuleSource
	mailForwardingAddress