Container based on original wordpress docker container with addition of ssmtp to allow mail sending.

Package was inspired by that project

Configuration

Configuration with environment variables

Environment variables possible to use:

SSMTP_ROOT - the person who gets all mail for userids < 1000, make this empty to disable rewriting

SSMTP_MAILHUB - smtp host

SSMTP_USETLS = YES/NO (default NO)

SSMTP_USESTARTTLS = YES/NO (default NO)

SSMTP_REWRITEDOMAIN (default empty) - where will the mail seem to come from

SSMTP_HOSTNAME - server hostname 

SSMTP_FROMLINEOVERRIDE = YES/NO (DEFAULT YES) - are users allowed to set their own From: address

SSMTP_AUTHUSER - user login

SSMTP_AUTHPASS - user password

Configuration with ssmtp.conf file

alternatively VOLUME /etc/ssmtp with config files might be mounted. Configuration examples can be found here

Examples

Gmail example

[email protected]
SSMTP_USETLS=YES
SSMTP_USESTARTTLS=YES
SSMTP_MAILHUB=smtp.gmail.com:587
[email protected]
SSMTP_AUTHPASS=veryhardpassword

sudo docker run -e SSMTP_ROOT='[email protected]' -e SSMTP_USETLS='YES' \
-e SSMTP_USESTARTTLS='YES' -e SSMTP_MAILHUB='smtp.gmail.com:587' \
-e SSMTP_AUTHUSER='[email protected]' -e SSMTP_AUTHPASS='veryhardpassword' \
defragmentator/wordpress_ssmtp:apache

Full wordpress installation example with docker stack

config.yml:

version: '3'

services:
   db:
     image: mysql:5.7
     volumes:
       - /home/docker/wordpress/db:/var/lib/mysql
     restart: always
     environment:
       MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: mysql
       MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress
       MYSQL_USER: wordpress
       MYSQL_PASSWORD: wordpress

   wordpress:
     depends_on:
       - db
     volumes:
       - /home/docker/wordpress/html:/var/www/html
     image: defragmentator/wordpress_ssmtp:fpm
     restart: always
     environment:
       WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db:3306
       WORDPRESS_DB_USER: wordpress
       WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: wordpress
       SSMTP_ROOT: [email protected]
       SSMTP_MAILHUB: smtp.gmail.com:587
       SSMTP_USETLS:  'YES'
       SSMTP_USESTARTTLS:  'YES'
       SSMTP_FROMLINEOVERRIDE: 'YES'
       SSMTP_AUTHUSER: [email protected]
       SSMTP_AUTHPASS: password


   web:
        image: nginx:latest
        restart: always
        ports:
            - "80:80"
        volumes:
            - /home/docker/wordpress/log:/var/log/nginx
            - /home/docker/wordpress/html:/var/www/html
            - /home/docker/wordpress/nginx/default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

deployment:

sudo docker stack deploy -c config.yml wordpresssite