mailer.conf(5)

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 mail

wrapper(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 com

ments, denoted
by a # mark in the first column of any line.

FILES

/etc/mail/mailer.conf

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/libex

ec/sendmail/sendmail
sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail

This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like

Postfix in
place of sendmail.

# Emulate sendmail using postfix
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail

SEE ALSO

mail(1), mailq(1), newaliases(1), mailwrapper(8), send

mail(8)

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 "be

have differently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things

like mailq(1)
should go away.

BSD December 16, 1998

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