Community.general.mail

The community.general.mail module in Ansible is used to manage email accounts, email aliases, and email forwarding. It provides a set of tasks and handlers that can be used to configure email services on a Linux system.

Here are some examples of what you can do with the community.general.mail module:

1. Create an email account: You can use the mail_user task to create a new email account. For example:

• name: Create a new email account community.general.mail: user: john.doe password: mysecretpassword alias: [email protected] state: present

2. Create an email alias: You can use the mail_alias task to create a new email alias. For example:

• name: Create an email alias community.general.mail: alias: [email protected] destination: [email protected] state: present

3. Forward email: You can use the mail_forward task to forward email from one address to another. For example:

• name: Forward email from [email protected] to [email protected] community.general.mail: source: [email protected] destination: [email protected] state: present

4. Delete an email account: You can use the mail_user task with the state: absent parameter to delete an email account. For example:

• name: Delete an email account community.general.mail: user: john.doe state: absent

5. Delete an email alias: You can use the mail_alias task with the state: absent parameter to delete an email alias. For example:

• name: Delete an email alias community.general.mail: alias: [email protected] state: absent

6. Flush email aliases: You can use the mail_flush task to flush the email aliases. For example:

• name: Flush email aliases community.general.mail: state: flushed

  
  These are just a few examples of what you can do with the `community.general.mail` module. You can find more information about the available tasks and options in the Ansible documentation.

Note that the community.general.mail module is not included in the default Ansible installation, so you may need to install it using the ansible-galaxy command:

ansible-galaxy install community.general