NAME
mailer.conf — configuration file for mailwrapper(8)
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/mail/mailer.conf contains a series of pairs. The first member of each pair is the name of a program invoking mailwrapper(8) which is typically a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/sendmail. (On a typical system, newaliases(1) and mailq(1) would be set up this way.) The second member of each pair is the name of the program to actually execute when the first name is invoked. The file may also contain comments, denoted by a # mark in the first column of any line.
EXAMPLES
The following is an example of how to set up an mailer.conf for traditional sendmail invocation behavior.
# Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
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sendmail |
/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail |
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send-mail |
/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail |
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mailq |
/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail |
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newaliases |
/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail |
This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like Postfix in place of sendmail.
# Emulate sendmail using postfix
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sendmail |
/usr/local/sbin/sendmail |
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send-mail |
/usr/local/sbin/sendmail |
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mailq |
/usr/local/sbin/sendmail |
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newaliases |
/usr/local/sbin/sendmail |
FILES
/etc/mail/mailer.conf
SEE ALSO
mail(1), mailq(1), newaliases(1), mailwrapper(8), sendmail(8)
HISTORY
mailer.conf appeared in NetBSD 1.4.
AUTHORS
Perry E. Metzger <perry [AT] 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 differently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like mailq(1) should go away.
BSD December 16, 1998 BSD