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 February 18, 2016 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 lines of the form 45.Pp 46.Ar name 47.Ar program 48.Op Ar arguments ... 49.Pp 50The first word of each line is the 51.Ar name 52of a program invoking 53.Xr mailwrapper 8 . 54(For example, on a typical system 55.Pa /usr/sbin/sendmail 56would be a symbolic link to 57.Xr mailwrapper 8 , 58as would 59.Xr newaliases 1 60and 61.Xr mailq 1 . 62Thus, 63.Ar name 64might be 65.Dq Li sendmail 66or 67.Dq Li newaliases 68etc.) 69.Pp 70The second word of each line is the name of the 71.Ar program 72to actually execute when the first name is invoked. 73.Pp 74The further 75.Ar arguments , 76if any, are passed to the 77.Ar program , 78followed by the arguments 79.Xr mailwrapper 8 80was called with. 81.Pp 82The file may also contain comment lines, denoted by a 83.Ql # 84mark in the first column of any line. 85.Sh FILES 86.Bl -tag -width Pa 87.It Pa /etc/mail/mailer.conf 88.El 89.Sh EXAMPLES 90This example shows how to set up 91.Nm 92to invoke the traditional 93.Xr sendmail 8 94program: 95.Bd -literal -offset indent 96# Execute the "real" sendmail program located in 97# /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 98sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 99send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 100mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 101newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 102.Ed 103.Pp 104Using 105.Nm Postfix 106(from ports) 107to replace 108.Xr sendmail 8 : 109.Bd -literal -offset indent 110# Emulate sendmail using postfix 111sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 112send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 113mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 114newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 115.Ed 116.Pp 117Using 118.Nm Exim 119(from ports) 120to replace 121.Xr sendmail 8 : 122.Bd -literal -offset indent 123# Emulate sendmail using exim 124sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim 125send-mail /usr/local/sbin/exim 126mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp 127newaliases /usr/bin/true 128rmail /usr/local/sbin/exim -i -oee 129.Ed 130.Pp 131Using 132.Nm mini_sendmail 133(from ports) 134to replace 135.Xr sendmail 8 : 136.Bd -literal -offset indent 137# Send outgoing mail to a smart relay using mini_sendmail 138sendmail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost 139send-mail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost 140.Ed 141.Pp 142Using 143.Xr dma 8 144to replace 145.Xr sendmail 8 : 146.Bd -literal -offset indent 147# Execute dma instead of sendmail 148sendmail /usr/libexec/dma 149send-mail /usr/libexec/dma 150mailq /usr/libexec/dma 151newaliases /usr/libexec/dma 152rmail /usr/libexec/dma 153.Ed 154.Sh SEE ALSO 155.Xr mail 1 , 156.Xr mailq 1 , 157.Xr newaliases 1 , 158.Xr dma 8 , 159.Xr mailwrapper 8 , 160.Xr sendmail 8 161.Pp 162.Xr postfix 1 Pq Pa ports/mail/postfix , 163.Xr dma 8 Pq Pa ports/mail/dma , 164.Xr exim 8 Pq Pa ports/mail/exim , 165.Xr mini_sendmail 8 Pq Pa ports/mail/mini_sendmail 166.Sh HISTORY 167.Nm 168appeared in 169.Nx 1.4 . 170.Sh AUTHORS 171.An Perry E. Metzger Aq Mt perry@piermont.com 172.Sh BUGS 173The entire reason this program exists is a crock. 174Instead, a command 175for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave 176differently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like 177.Xr mailq 1 178should go away. 179