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 October 8, 2010 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/etc/mail/mailer.conf 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 97send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 98mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 99newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 100.Ed 101.Pp 102This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like 103.Nm Postfix 104in place of 105.Xr sendmail 8 : 106.Bd -literal -offset indent 107# Emulate sendmail using postfix 108sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 109send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 110mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 111newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 112.Ed 113.Pp 114This example shows 115how to invoke 116a sendmail-workalike with 117.Nm Exim 118(from ports) 119in place of 120.Xr sendmail 8 : 121.Bd -literal -offset indent 122# Emulate sendmail using exim 123sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim 124send-mail /usr/local/sbin/exim 125mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp 126newaliases /usr/bin/true 127rmail /usr/local/sbin/exim -i -oee 128.Ed 129.Pp 130This example shows the use of the 131.Nm mini_sendmail 132package from ports in place of 133.Xr sendmail 8 . 134Note the use of additional arguments. 135.Bd -literal -offset indent 136# Send outgoing mail to a smart relay using mini_sendmail 137sendmail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost 138send-mail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost 139.Ed 140.Sh SEE ALSO 141.Xr mail 1 , 142.Xr mailq 1 , 143.Xr newaliases 1 , 144.Xr mailwrapper 8 , 145.Xr sendmail 8 146.Pp 147.Xr postfix 1 Pq Pa ports/mail/postfix , 148.Xr mini_sendmail 8 Pq Pa ports/mail/mini_sendmail 149.Sh HISTORY 150.Nm 151appeared in 152.Nx 1.4 . 153.Sh AUTHORS 154.An Perry E. Metzger Aq perry@piermont.com 155.Sh BUGS 156The entire reason this program exists is a crock. 157Instead, a command 158for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave 159differently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like 160.Xr mailq 1 161should go away. 162