Configure your Test Mail Server for Apache Syncope

This post will show you how to create a mail server for test Apache Syncope notification.

Install and configure Postfix on Debian

1. Install Postfix
   

   apt-get install postfix

2. Install PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) map support
   

   apt-get install postfix-pcre

3. Create a new file /etc/postfix/virtual
   admin@postfixtest.org admin
   user@postfixtest.org user
4. /.*/ catchall
5. Configure /etc/postfix/main.cf

   # Debian specific:  Specifying a file name will cause the first
                 # line of that file to be used as the name.  The Debian default
                 # is /etc/mailname.
                 myorigin = /etc/mailname
   
                 smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
                 biff = no
   
                 # appending .domain is the MUA's job.
                 append_dot_mydomain = no
   
                 # Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
                 #delay_warning_time = 4h
   
                 readme_directory = no
   
                 # See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
                 # information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.
   
                 myhostname = debian
                 alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
                 alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
                 mydestination = $myhostname  localhost postfixtest.org
                 mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 192.168.0.0/24
                 mydomain = postfixtest.org
                 mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
                 mailbox_size_limit = 0
                 mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
                 home_mailbox = Maildir/
                 recipient_delimiter = +
                 default_transport = error
                 relay_transport = error
   
                 inet_interfaces = 192.168.0.136,127.0.0.1
   
                 virtual_alias_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/virtual

6. Reload Postfix Server postfix reload

Apache Syncope Notification

This page aims to show how to configure notifications by using Apache Syncope.

1. Click on Configuration Tab
2. Click on Notification Tab
3. Click on Create new notification button
   
4. Click on About and Event subtab and provide a condition to filter users interested by the specified events.
   
5. Click on Recipients and configure the recipient of the mail

Test notification with Apache Syncope

Now you can check if everything works fine.

1. Create new user and assign resource-testdb
2. Go to Tasks - Notification Tasks
   
3. Check Last status column
4. Check if the mail has been sent
   mail -u catchall or vi /var/mail/catchall

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