diff --git a/docs/configuring-playbook-bot-postmoogle.md b/docs/configuring-playbook-bot-postmoogle.md index 4d4ba520e..b66285a51 100644 --- a/docs/configuring-playbook-bot-postmoogle.md +++ b/docs/configuring-playbook-bot-postmoogle.md @@ -5,25 +5,22 @@ The playbook can install and configure [Postmoogle](https://gitlab.com/etke.cc/postmoogle) for you. It's a bot/bridge you can use to forward emails to Matrix rooms. -Postmoogle runs an email server through SMTP and allaws you to create mailboxes to the domain you define in the DNS settings. +Postmoogle runs an SMTP email server and allows you to assign mailbox addresses to Matrix rooms. See the project's [documentation](https://gitlab.com/etke.cc/postmoogle) to learn what it does and why it might be useful to you. ## Prerequisites -### Ports +### Networking + +Open the following ports on your server to be able to receive incoming emails: -Open the following ports to your server (without it you will not recive email, but you can still send): - `25/tcp`: SMTP - - `587/tcp`: TLS-encrypted SMTP + - `587/tcp`: Submission (TLS-encrypted SMTP) -You can change the above default ports through the following variables in the playbook: +If you don't open these ports, you will still be able to send emails, but not receive any. -```yaml -# on-host ports -matrix_bot_postmoogle_smtp_host_bind_port: '25' -matrix_bot_postmoogle_submission_host_bind_port: '587' -``` +These port numbers are configurable via the `matrix_bot_postmoogle_smtp_host_bind_port` and `matrix_bot_postmoogle_submission_host_bind_port` variables, but other email servers will try to deliver on these default (standard) ports, so changing them is of little use. ### Adjusting the playbook configuration @@ -38,16 +35,20 @@ matrix_bot_postmoogle_enabled: true # Generate a strong password here. Consider generating it with `pwgen -s 64 1` matrix_bot_postmoogle_password: PASSWORD_FOR_THE_BOT -``` -Add an admin to Postmoogle with: -```yaml -matrix_bot_postmoogle_admins: - - '@yourAdminAccount:domain.com' +# Uncomment to add one or more admins to this bridge: +# +# matrix_bot_postmoogle_admins: +# - '@yourAdminAccount:domain.com' +# +# .. unless you've made yourself an admin of all bridges like this: +# +# matrix_admin: '@yourAdminAccount:domain.com' ``` ### DNS -You will also need to add several DNS records so that postmoogle can send emails. + +You will also need to add several DNS records so that Postmoogle can send emails. See [Configuring DNS](configuring-dns.md). @@ -77,10 +78,11 @@ Send `!pm help` to the room to see the bot's help menu for additional commands. You can also refer to the upstream [documentation](https://gitlab.com/etke.cc/postmoogle). ### Debug/Logs -In case you need to debug declare: + +As with all other services, you can find their logs in [systemd-journald](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service.html) by running something like `journalctl -fu matrix-bot-postmoogle` + +The default logging level for this bridge is `INFO`, but you can increase it to `DEBUG` with the following additional configuration: ```yaml matrix_bot_postmoogle_loglevel: 'DEBUG' ``` - -And access it through `journalctl -fu matrix-bot-postmoogle` \ No newline at end of file