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.\" $FreeBSD$ 33.\" 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. 45The first member of each pair is the name 46of a program invoking 47.Xr mailwrapper 8 48which is typically a symbolic link to 49.Pa /usr/sbin/sendmail . 50(On a typical system, 51.Xr newaliases 1 52and 53.Xr mailq 1 54would be set up this way.) 55The second member of each pair is the name of the program to 56actually execute when the first name is invoked. 57The file may also 58contain comments, denoted by a # mark in the first column of any line. 59.Sh FILES 60/etc/mail/mailer.conf 61.Sh EXAMPLES 62The following is an example of how to set up an 63.Nm 64for traditional sendmail invocation behavior. 65.Bd -literal 66# Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 67sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 68send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 69mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 70newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 71.Ed 72.Pp 73This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like Postfix in 74place of sendmail. 75.Bd -literal 76# Emulate sendmail using postfix 77sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 78send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 79mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 80newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 81.Ed 82.Sh SEE ALSO 83.Xr mail 1 , 84.Xr mailq 1 , 85.Xr newaliases 1 , 86.Xr mailwrapper 8 , 87.Xr sendmail 8 88.Sh HISTORY 89.Nm 90appeared in 91.Nx 1.4 . 92.Sh AUTHORS 93.An Perry E. Metzger Aq perry@piermont.com 94.Sh BUGS 95The entire reason this program exists is a crock. 96Instead, a command 97for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave 98differently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like 99.Xr mailq 1 100should go away. 101