Mail Server

Description

This module installs and configures the SOP mail server responsible for sending voicemail and fax messages to the appropriate user mailboxes

Release notes

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Version 2.2.1 - Early deployment
  • Bugfix: Was still crashing. Trying something else. (PC-1723)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)
    • Baseline >= 3.X
    • SMP >= 5.6.x
    • Software Sources module >= 1.1.0
    • Certificate Generator module >= 1.0.0

Version 2.2.0 - Early deployment
  • Bugfix: make update-exim4.conf not fail (PC-1723)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)
    • Baseline >= 3.X
    • SMP >= 5.6.x
    • Software Sources module >= 1.1.0
    • Certificate Generator module >= 1.0.0

Version 2.1.0 - Early deployment
  • Feature: Add the ability to relay mail from the network using the server. (M15500)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)
    • Baseline >= 3.X
    • SMP >= 5.6.x
    • Software Sources module >= 1.1.0
    • Certificate Generator module >= 1.0.0

Version 2.0.1 - Early deployment
  • Bugfix: Disk space issue caused by local mailboxes (M14683)
  • Bugfix: Force secure mode as default (M14683)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)
    • Baseline >= 3.X
    • SMP >= 5.6.x
    • Software Sources module >= 1.1.0
    • Certificate Generator module >= 1.0.0

Version 2.0.0 - Early deployment
  • Feature: Install packages using apt (M12753)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)
    • Baseline >= 3.X
    • SMP >= 5.6.x
    • Software Sources module >= 1.1.0
    • Certificate Generator module >= 1.0.0

Version 1.5.4 - Early deployment
  • Bugfix: Disk space issue caused by local mailboxes (Backport)(M14683)
  • Bugfix: Force secure mode as default (Backport)(M14683)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)
    • Baseline >= 2.0.0

Version 1.5.3 - Early deployment
  • Bugfix: Replaced /dev/null to blackhole when no postmaster address is specified (M0)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)
    • Baseline >= 2.0.0

Version 1.5.1 - General deployment
  • Bugfix: Default values could be incorrect when upgrading from a previous version and new options are available. (M10261)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)

Version 1.5.0 - General deployment
  • Feature: Add extra configuration options to SMTP server (M5330)
  • Improvement: Reduce module installation time on high latency networks (M8766)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)

Version 1.4.0 - General deployment
  • Feature: Accept and redirect mails from @direcfax to the fax server. (M6909)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)

Version 1.3.2 - General deployment
  • Improvement: Run email to fax process as uucp. (M6315)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)

Version 1.3.1 - General deployment
  • Improvement: Compatibility with baseline 3
  • Bugfix: local mail files were never rotated properly
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)

Version 1.3.0 - General deployment
  • Feature: Prevent the mail server to fill the disks. (M0005980)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)

Version 1.2.0 - General deployment
  • Feature: Be able to see the mail log using the SOP shell (M0001353)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)

Version 1.1.4 - General deployment
  • Bugfix: Type prevented email-to-fax to work properly. (M0004892)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0+ (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)

Version 1.1.3 - General deployment
  • Feature: Support for basic HTML in email-to-fax. (M0004716)
  • Dependency:
    • Fax Server 1.10.0 (Optional, only required if you are using email-to-fax)

Version 1.1.2 - General deployment
  • Improvement: Secure mode option

Version 1.1.1 - General deployment
  • Feature: Email to fax is now supported for baseline 2 installations

Version 1.1.0 - General deployment
  • initial version

Module configuration interface

create_resource_form: .:/usr/share/escaux/glue/lib:/usr/share/escaux/glue/bin/gen_wiki_documentation/src/lib:/usr/share/escaux/glue/bin/gen_wiki_documentation/src/lib/

Outgoing SMTP server
Postmaster email
Domain name
Email to fax DNS (example: *.fax.escaux.com)
Mode
Use authentication
Username (if authentication is set to 'Yes')
Password (if authentication is set to 'Yes')
Port number to use
Relay Networks

Module configuration parameters

  • Outgoing SMTP server: hostname or IP address of outgoing mail server. Can be left blank to act as smarthost (not recommended).
  • Postmaster email: optional email address to receive technical mails from the SOP (e.g. delivery failure messages etc.)
  • Domain name: mail sent from the SOP will have this domain name (after the '@').
  • Email to fax DNS: DNS domain that will be redirected to the fax server
  • Mode: Secure mode binds the mail server on localhost. Compatibility mode should only be set to when using email-to-fax.
  • Use authentication: Secure mode binds the mail server on localhost. Compatibility mode should only be set to when using email-to-fax.
  • Username: The username to use when authenticating against the Outgoing SMTP server.
  • Password: The password to use when authenticating against the Outgoing SMTP server.
  • Port number to use: The outgoing server SMTP port.
  • Relay Networks: Netwoks (separated by colon) allowed to use the mail server as relay. (eg. set it to 172.16.2.0/24:172.16.8.1 in order to relay mail from all host in the network 172.16.2.0/24 and the host 172.16.8.1)

Service assurance

As of version 1.2.0 it is possible to check the logs generated by the mail server. You can access them by using the SOP shell; navigate to "Diagnostics > E-mail > View log".
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