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34.Dd November 11, 2017
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/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/lib/sendmail
56would be a symbolic link to
57.Xr mailwrapper 8 ,
58as would
59.Xr newaliases 8
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/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/lib/smtp/sendmail/sendmail
96sendmail	/usr/lib/smtp/sendmail/sendmail
97mailq		/usr/lib/smtp/sendmail/sendmail
98newaliases	/usr/lib/smtp/sendmail/sendmail
99.Ed
100.Sh SEE ALSO
101.Xr mail 1 ,
102.Xr mailq 1 ,
103.Xr mailwrapper 8 ,
104.Xr newaliases 8 ,
105.Xr sendmail 8
106.Sh AUTHORS
107.An Perry E. Metzger Aq perry@piermont.com
108