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1*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.\"	$NetBSD: mailer.conf.5,v 1.2 1999/05/29 18:18:30 christos Exp $
2*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.\"
3*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.\" Copyright (c) 1998
4*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.\" 	Perry E. Metzger.  All rights reserved.
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34*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Dd November 11, 2017
35*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Dt MAILER.CONF 5
36*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Os
37*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Sh NAME
38*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Nm mailer.conf
39*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Nd configuration file for
40*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr mailwrapper 8
41*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Sh DESCRIPTION
42*bbf21555SRichard LoweThe file
43*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Pa /etc/mailer.conf
44*bbf21555SRichard Lowecontains a series of lines of the form
45*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Pp
46*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Ar name
47*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Ar program
48*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Op Ar arguments ...
49*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Pp
50*bbf21555SRichard LoweThe first word of each line is the
51*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Ar name
52*bbf21555SRichard Loweof a program invoking
53*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr mailwrapper 8 .
54*bbf21555SRichard Lowe(For example, on a typical system
55*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Pa /usr/lib/sendmail
56*bbf21555SRichard Lowewould be a symbolic link to
57*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr mailwrapper 8 ,
58*bbf21555SRichard Loweas would
59*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr newaliases 8
60*bbf21555SRichard Loweand
61*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr mailq 1 .
62*bbf21555SRichard LoweThus,
63*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Ar name
64*bbf21555SRichard Lowemight be
65*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Dq Li sendmail
66*bbf21555SRichard Loweor
67*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Dq Li newaliases
68*bbf21555SRichard Loweetc.)
69*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Pp
70*bbf21555SRichard LoweThe second word of each line is the name of the
71*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Ar program
72*bbf21555SRichard Loweto actually execute when the first name is invoked.
73*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Pp
74*bbf21555SRichard LoweThe further
75*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Ar arguments ,
76*bbf21555SRichard Loweif any, are passed to the
77*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Ar program ,
78*bbf21555SRichard Lowefollowed by the arguments
79*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr mailwrapper 8
80*bbf21555SRichard Lowewas called with.
81*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Pp
82*bbf21555SRichard LoweThe file may also contain comment lines, denoted by a
83*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Ql #
84*bbf21555SRichard Lowemark in the first column of any line.
85*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Sh FILES
86*bbf21555SRichard Lowe/etc/mailer.conf
87*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Sh EXAMPLES
88*bbf21555SRichard LoweThis example shows how to set up
89*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Nm
90*bbf21555SRichard Loweto invoke the traditional
91*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr sendmail 8
92*bbf21555SRichard Loweprogram:
93*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Bd -literal -offset indent
94*bbf21555SRichard Lowe# Execute the "real" sendmail program located in
95*bbf21555SRichard Lowe# /usr/lib/smtp/sendmail/sendmail
96*bbf21555SRichard Lowesendmail	/usr/lib/smtp/sendmail/sendmail
97*bbf21555SRichard Lowemailq		/usr/lib/smtp/sendmail/sendmail
98*bbf21555SRichard Lowenewaliases	/usr/lib/smtp/sendmail/sendmail
99*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Ed
100*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Sh SEE ALSO
101*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr mail 1 ,
102*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr mailq 1 ,
103*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr mailwrapper 8 ,
104*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr newaliases 8 ,
105*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Xr sendmail 8
106*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.Sh AUTHORS
107*bbf21555SRichard Lowe.An Perry E. Metzger Aq perry@piermont.com
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