1.\" $NetBSD: mailer.conf.5,v 1.2 1999/05/29 18:18:30 christos Exp $ 2.\" $FreeBSD$ 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 1998 5.\" Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgment: 17.\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project 18.\" by Perry E. Metzger. 19.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 20.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 23.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 24.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 25.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 26.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 27.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 28.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 29.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 30.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 31.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 32.\" 33.\" The following requests are required for all man pages. 34.Dd December 16, 1998 35.Dt MAILER.CONF 5 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm mailer.conf 39.Nd configuration file for 40.Xr mailwrapper 8 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The file 43.Pa /etc/mail/mailer.conf 44contains a series of pairs. The first member of each pair is the name 45of a program invoking 46.Xr mailwrapper 8 47which is typically a symbolic link to 48.Pa /usr/sbin/sendmail . 49(On a typical system, 50.Xr newaliases 1 51and 52.Xr mailq 1 53would be set up this way.) 54The second member of each pair is the name of the program to 55actually execute when the first name is invoked. The file may also 56contain comments, denoted by a # mark in the first column of any line. 57.Sh EXAMPLES 58The following is an example of how to set up an 59.Nm 60for traditional sendmail invocation behavior. 61.Bd -literal 62# Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 63sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 64send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 65mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 66newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 67.Ed 68.Pp 69This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like Postfix in 70place of sendmail. 71.Bd -literal 72# Emulate sendmail using postfix 73sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 74send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 75mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 76newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 77.Ed 78.Sh FILES 79/etc/mail/mailer.conf 80.Sh SEE ALSO 81.Xr mail 1 , 82.Xr mailq 1 , 83.Xr newaliases 1 , 84.Xr mailwrapper 8 , 85.Xr sendmail 8 86.Sh HISTORY 87.Nm 88appeared in 89.Nx 1.4 . 90.Sh AUTHORS 91Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> 92.Sh BUGS 93The entire reason this program exists is a crock. Instead, a command 94for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave 95differently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like 96.Xr mailq 1 97should go away. 98