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MAILER.CONF(5) File Formats Manual MAILER.CONF(5) NAME mailer.conf -- configuration file for mailwrapper(8) DESCRIPTION The file /etc/mail/mailer.conf contains a series of lines of the form name program [arguments ...] The first word of each line is the name of a program invoking mailwrapper(8). (For example, on a typical system /usr/sbin/sendmail would be a symbolic link to mailwrapper(8), as would newaliases(1) and mailq(1). Thus, name might be "sendmail" or "newaliases" etc.) The second word of each line is the name of the program to actually ex- ecute when the first name is invoked. The further arguments, if any, are passed to the program, followed by the arguments mailwrapper(8) was called with. The file may also contain comment lines, denoted by a `#' mark in the first column of any line. FILES /etc/mail/mailer.conf EXAMPLES This example shows how to set up mailer.conf to invoke the traditional sendmail(8) program: # Execute the "real" sendmail program located in # /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail Using Postfix (from ports) to replace sendmail(8): # Emulate sendmail using postfix sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail Using Exim (from ports) to replace sendmail(8): # Emulate sendmail using exim sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp newaliases /usr/bin/true rmail /usr/local/sbin/exim -i -oee Using mini_sendmail (from ports) to replace sendmail(8): # Send outgoing mail to a smart relay using mini_sendmail sendmail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost Using dma(8) to replace sendmail(8): # Execute dma instead of sendmail sendmail /usr/libexec/dma mailq /usr/libexec/dma newaliases /usr/libexec/dma rmail /usr/libexec/dma SEE ALSO mail(1), mailq(1), newaliases(1), dma(8), mailwrapper(8), sendmail(8) postfix(1) (ports/mail/postfix), dma(8) (ports/mail/dma), exim(8) (ports/mail/exim), mini_sendmail(8) (ports/mail/mini_sendmail) HISTORY mailer.conf appeared in NetBSD 1.4. AUTHORS Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> BUGS The entire reason this program exists is a crock. Instead, a command for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave dif- ferently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like mailq(1) should go away. FreeBSD 14.3 December 26, 2017 MAILER.CONF(5)
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