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: releng/9.1/share/man/man5/mailer.conf.5 213609 2010-10-08 20:13:12Z markm $ 33.\" 34.Dd October 8, 2010 35.Dt MAILER.CONF 4 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm mailer.conf 39.Nd configuration file for 40.Xr mailwrapper 1M 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 1M . 54(For example, on a typical system 55.Pa /usr/lib/sendmail 56would be a symbolic link to 57.Xr mailwrapper 1M , 58as would 59.Xr newaliases 1M 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 1M 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 1M 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 1M , 104.Xr newaliases 1M , 105.Xr sendmail 1M 106.Sh AUTHORS 107.An Perry E. Metzger Aq perry@piermont.com 108