How did my email variables all end up in `group_varrs/all/vault.yml`?

trellis
1

So I seem to have successfully provisioned and deployed yesterday and mail is working via gmail smtp using the following group_vars/all/mail.yml config:

# Documentation: https://roots.io/trellis/docs/mail/
mail_smtp_server: smtp.domain.com:587
mail_admin: admin@domain.com
mail_hostname: domain.com
mail_user: smtp_user
mail_password: "{{ vault_mail_password }}" #

Literally: mail_user: smtp_user, which was perplexing. Is smtp_user a variable? No.

Then I open group_varrs/all/vault.yml:

ansible-vault edit group_vars/all/vault.yml --vault-password .vault_pass

And find:

vault_mail_password: arbitrary_password (?)
mail_smtp_server: smtp.gmail.com:587 
mail_hostname: smtp.gmail.com
mail_user: me@gmail.address
mail_password: gmailpassword

which correctly provisioned /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf:

root=admin@domain.com
AuthMethod=LOGIN
FromLineOverride=Yes
UseTLS=Yes
UseSTARTTLS=Yes
hostname=smtp.gmail.com
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
AuthUser=me@gmail.com
AuthPass=gmailpassword

Not sure how this happened or why it worked, as the docs clearly state the vault_mail_password is all that’s to be defined in vault.yml. Does vault.yml override mail.yml?

2

Nope. I have no idea how that could happen either :thinking:. I’d try running vault again and see if it fixes it.