1.\" $NetBSD: mailer.conf.5,v 1.2 1999/05/29 18:18:30 christos Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1998 4.\" Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgment: 16.\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project 17.\" by Perry E. Metzger. 18.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 19.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 20.\" 21.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 23.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 24.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 25.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 26.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 27.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 28.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 29.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 30.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.Dd December 26, 2017 33.Dt MAILER.CONF 5 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm mailer.conf 37.Nd configuration file for 38.Xr mailwrapper 8 39.Sh DESCRIPTION 40The file 41.Pa /etc/mail/mailer.conf 42contains a series of lines of the form 43.Pp 44.Ar name 45.Ar program 46.Op Ar arguments ... 47.Pp 48The first word of each line is the 49.Ar name 50of a program invoking 51.Xr mailwrapper 8 . 52(For example, on a typical system 53.Pa /usr/sbin/sendmail 54would be a symbolic link to 55.Xr mailwrapper 8 , 56as would 57.Xr newaliases 1 58and 59.Xr mailq 1 . 60Thus, 61.Ar name 62might be 63.Dq Li sendmail 64or 65.Dq Li newaliases 66etc.) 67.Pp 68The second word of each line is the name of the 69.Ar program 70to actually execute when the first name is invoked. 71.Pp 72The further 73.Ar arguments , 74if any, are passed to the 75.Ar program , 76followed by the arguments 77.Xr mailwrapper 8 78was called with. 79.Pp 80The file may also contain comment lines, denoted by a 81.Ql # 82mark in the first column of any line. 83.Sh FILES 84.Bl -tag -width Pa 85.It Pa /etc/mail/mailer.conf 86.El 87.Sh EXAMPLES 88This example shows how to set up 89.Nm 90to invoke the traditional 91.Xr sendmail 8 92program: 93.Bd -literal -offset indent 94# Execute the "real" sendmail program located in 95# /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 96sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 97mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 98newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 99.Ed 100.Pp 101Using 102.Nm Postfix 103(from ports) 104to replace 105.Xr sendmail 8 : 106.Bd -literal -offset indent 107# Emulate sendmail using postfix 108sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 109mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 110newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 111.Ed 112.Pp 113Using 114.Nm Exim 115(from ports) 116to replace 117.Xr sendmail 8 : 118.Bd -literal -offset indent 119# Emulate sendmail using exim 120sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim 121mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp 122newaliases /usr/bin/true 123rmail /usr/local/sbin/exim -i -oee 124.Ed 125.Pp 126Using 127.Nm mini_sendmail 128(from ports) 129to replace 130.Xr sendmail 8 : 131.Bd -literal -offset indent 132# Send outgoing mail to a smart relay using mini_sendmail 133sendmail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost 134.Ed 135.Pp 136Using 137.Xr dma 8 138to replace 139.Xr sendmail 8 : 140.Bd -literal -offset indent 141# Execute dma instead of sendmail 142sendmail /usr/libexec/dma 143mailq /usr/libexec/dma 144newaliases /usr/libexec/dma 145rmail /usr/libexec/dma 146.Ed 147.Sh SEE ALSO 148.Xr mail 1 , 149.Xr mailq 1 , 150.Xr newaliases 1 , 151.Xr dma 8 , 152.Xr mailwrapper 8 , 153.Xr sendmail 8 154.Pp 155.Xr postfix 1 Pq Pa ports/mail/postfix , 156.Xr dma 8 Pq Pa ports/mail/dma , 157.Xr exim 8 Pq Pa ports/mail/exim , 158.Xr mini_sendmail 8 Pq Pa ports/mail/mini_sendmail 159.Sh HISTORY 160.Nm 161appeared in 162.Nx 1.4 . 163.Sh AUTHORS 164.An Perry E. Metzger Aq Mt perry@piermont.com 165.Sh BUGS 166The entire reason this program exists is a crock. 167Instead, a command 168for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave 169differently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like 170.Xr mailq 1 171should go away. 172