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author | Tanguy Le Carrour <tanguy@bioneland.org> | 2023-05-17 10:51:44 +0200 |
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committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2023-05-30 00:15:30 +0200 |
commit | 110462bb2f1678fb0147a5845b2b48d0566ce0b4 (patch) | |
tree | 8f17b98ac4d00309f1a508a5d40850ae708e22ac /doc | |
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home: services: Add msmtp service.
* gnu/home/services/mail.scm: New file. * gnu/local.mk (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it. * doc/guix.texi (Mail Home Services): New node. Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 4314ec666c..47b2b8ba62 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2023 Giacomo Leidi@* Copyright @copyright{} 2022 Antero Mejr@* Copyright @copyright{} 2023 Karl Hallsby@* Copyright @copyright{} 2023 Nathaniel Nicandro@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2023 Tanguy Le Carrour@* Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or @@ -42292,6 +42293,7 @@ services)}. * Guix: Guix Home Services. Services for Guix. * Fonts: Fonts Home Services. Services for managing User's fonts. * Sound: Sound Home Services. Dealing with audio. +* Mail: Mail Home Services. Services for managing mail. * Messaging: Messaging Home Services. Services for managing messaging. * Media: Media Home Services. Services for managing media. @end menu @@ -43523,6 +43525,141 @@ Stopping the Shepherd service turns off broadcasting. This is the multicast address used by default by the two services above. @end defvar +@node Mail Home Services +@subsection Mail Home Services + +The @code{(gnu home services mail)} module provides services that help +you set up the tools to work with emails in your home environment. + +@cindex msmtp +@uref{https://marlam.de/msmtp, MSMTP} is a @acronym{SMTP, Simple Mail +Transfer Protocol} client. It sends mail to a predefined SMTP server +that takes care of proper delivery. + +The service reference is given below. + +@defvar home-msmtp-service-type +This is the service type for @command{msmtp}. Its value must be a +@code{home-msmtp-configuration}, as shown below. It provides the +@file{~/.config/msmtp/config} file. + +As an example, here is how you would configure @code{msmtp} for a single +account: + +@lisp +(service home-msmtp-service-type + (home-msmtp-configuration + (accounts + (list + (msmtp-account + (name "alice") + (configuration + (msmtp-configuration + (host "mail.example.org") + (port 587) + (user "alice") + (password-eval "pass Mail/alice")))))))) +@end lisp +@end defvar + +@c %start of fragment + +@deftp {Data Type} home-msmtp-configuration +Available @code{home-msmtp-configuration} fields are: + +@table @asis +@item @code{defaults} (type: msmtp-configuration) +The configuration that will be set as default for all accounts. + +@item @code{accounts} (default: @code{()}) (type: list-of-msmtp-accounts) +A list of @code{msmtp-account} records which contain information about +all your accounts. + +@item @code{default-account} (type: maybe-string) +Set the default account. + +@item @code{extra-content} (default: @code{""}) (type: string) +Extra content appended as-is to the configuration file. Run +@command{man msmtp} for more information about the configuration file +format. + +@end table + +@end deftp + +@c %end of fragment + +@c %start of fragment + +@deftp {Data Type} msmtp-account +Available @code{msmtp-account} fields are: + +@table @asis +@item @code{name} (type: string) +The unique name of the account. + +@item @code{configuration} (type: msmtp-configuration) +The configuration for this given account. + +@end table + +@end deftp + +@c %end of fragment + +@c %start of fragment + +@deftp {Data Type} msmtp-configuration +Available @code{msmtp-configuration} fields are: + +@table @asis +@item @code{auth?} (type: maybe-boolean) +Enable or disable authentication. + +@item @code{tls?} (type: maybe-boolean) +Enable or disable TLS (also known as SSL) for secured connections. + +@item @code{tls-starttls?} (type: maybe-boolean) +Choose the TLS variant: start TLS from within the session (‘on’, +default), or tunnel the session through TLS (‘off’). + +@item @code{tls-trust-file} (type: maybe-string) +Activate server certificate verification using a list of trusted +Certification Authorities (CAs). + +@item @code{log-file} (type: maybe-string) +Enable logging to the specified file. An empty argument disables +logging. The file name ‘-’ directs the log information to standard +output. + +@item @code{host} (type: maybe-string) +The SMTP server to send the mail to. + +@item @code{port} (type: maybe-integer) +The port that the SMTP server listens on. The default is 25 ("smtp"), +unless TLS without STARTTLS is used, in which case it is 465 ("smtps"). + +@item @code{user} (type: maybe-string) +Set the user name for authentication. + +@item @code{from} (type: maybe-string) +Set the envelope-from address. + +@item @code{password-eval} (type: maybe-string) +Set the password for authentication to the output (stdout) of the +command cmd. + +@item @code{extra-content} (default: @code{""}) (type: string) +Extra content appended as-is to the configuration block. Run +@command{man msmtp} for more information about the configuration file +format. + +@end table + +@end deftp + +@c %end of fragment + @node Messaging Home Services @subsection Messaging Home Services |