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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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