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mailcow: dockerized - Ansible role 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕

This role will setup a mailcow dockerized email server.

Prerequisites

Up and running Ubuntu/Debian host (other distributions not supported/tested for now)
Docker Compose v2 is required!

Requirements

Requirements	Description
docker ce	Docker has to be installed on the host
docker-compose	docker-compose is needed

Notes

This role will use by default the inventory_hostname as mailcow hostname, this means that you have to use the full qualified domain name as your inventory hostname e.g. mail.mailcow.tld or you set mailcow__hostname to the correct FQDN.

Variables

name	purpose	default value	note
`mailcow__hostname`	sets MAILCOW_HOSTNAME	`inventory_hostname`	needs to be an full qualified domain name
`mailcow__install_path`	sets the path where the mailcow-dockerized repo will be cloned	`/opt/mailcow-dockerized`
`mailcow__git_version`	checkout a specific version of mailcow	`master`
`mailcow__timezone`	used to set the timezone your mailcow runs in during the config generation	not set	must be set
`mailcow__docker_compose_project_name`	sets the docker-compose projectname to a user-defined string	`mailcowdockerized`
`mailcow__theme`	set the default mailcow theme in vars.local.inc.php	`lumen`
`mailcow__config_http_port`	sets HTTP_PORT in mailcow.conf	`80`
`mailcow__config_http_bind`	sets HTTP_BIND in mailcow.conf	`none`
`mailcow__config_https_port`	sets HTTPS_PORT in mailcow.conf	`443`
`mailcow__config_https_bind`	sets HTTPS_BIND in mailcow.conf	`none`
`mailcow__config_acl_anyone`	sets ACL_ANYONE	disallow
`mailcow__config_maildir_gc_time`	sets MAILDIR_GC_TIME in mailcow.conf	`1440`
`mailcow__config_additional_san`	sets ADDITIONAL_SAN in mailcow.conf		needs to be a list
`mailcow__config_additional_server_names`	sets ADDITIONAL_SERVER_NAMES in mailcow.conf		needs to be a list
`mailcow__config_skip_lets_encrypt`	sets SKIP_LETS_ENCRYPT in mailcow.conf
`mailcow__config_enable_ssl_sni`	sets ENABLE_SSL_SNI in mailcow.conf
`mailcow__config_skip_ip_check`	sets SKIP_IP_CHECK in mailcow.conf
`mailcow__config_skip_http_verification`	sets SKIP_HTTP_VERIFICATION in mailcow.conf	`n`
`mailcow__config_skip_clamd`	sets SKIP_CLAMD in mailcow.conf	`n`
`mailcow__config_skip_solr`	sets SKIP_SOLR in mailcow.conf	`n`
`mailcow__config_solr_heap`	sets SOLR_HEAP in mailcow.conf	`1024`
`mailcow__config_skip_sogo`	sets SKIP_SOGO in mailcow.conf	`n`
`mailcow__config_allow_admin_email_login`	sets ALLOW_ADMIN_EMAIL_LOGIN in mailcow.conf	`n`
`mailcow__config_use_watchdog`	sets USE_WATCHDOG in mailcow.conf	`n`
`mailcow__config_watchdog_notify_email`	sets WATCHDOG_NOTIFY_EMAIL in mailcow.conf
`mailcow__config_watchdog_notify_ban`	sets WATCHDOG_NOTIFY_BAN in mailcow.conf	`y`
`mailcow__config_watchdog_subject`	sets WATCHDOG_SUBJECT in mailcow.conf	`Watchdog ALERT`
`mailcow__config_log_lines`	sets LOG_LINES in mailcow.conf	`9999`
`mailcow__config_sogo_expire_session`	sets SOGO_EXPIRE_SESSION in mailcow.conf	`480`
`mailcow__install_updates`	if `yes` the mailcow ansible role will also update an existing installation	`yes`
`mailcow__redirect_http_to_https`	if `yes`, all requests via HTTP will be redirected to HTTPS	`no`	also see https://mailcow.github.io/mailcow-dockerized-docs/u_e-80_to_443/
`mailcow__config_acme_contact`	sets ACME_CONTACT in mailcow.conf
`mailcow__rspamd_clamd_servers`	configures the clamd server used by rspamd	`clamd:3310`
`mailcow__compose_command`	configures the command that is used for compose	`docker compose`	set to `docker-compose` for the standalone version of compose

Usage

Minimal playbook:

---

- name: Install Python3
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: false
  roles:
    - { role: raw,0.0, vars: {command: 'apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip'} }

- name: Main Playbook
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: true
  vars:
    mailcow__timezone: Europe/Berlin
  roles:
    - Ansible-Roles.docker-ce
    - Ansible-Roles.docker-compose
    - Ansible-Roles.mailcow