NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     mailer.conf -- configuration file for mailwrapper(8)

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The file /etc/mail/mailer.conf contains a series of pairs. The first member
 of each pair is the name of a program invoking mailwrapper(8) which
     is typically a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/sendmail.  (On a typical system,
 newaliases(1) and mailq(1) would be set up this way.)  The second
     member of each pair is the name of the program to actually execute when
     the first name is invoked. The file may also contain comments, denoted by
     a # mark in the first column of any line.

EXAMPLES    [Toc]    [Back]

     The following is an example of how to set up an mailer.conf for traditional
 sendmail invocation behavior.

     # Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
     sendmail	     /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
     send-mail	     /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
     mailq	     /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
     newaliases      /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail

     This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like Postfix in
     place of sendmail.

     # Emulate sendmail using postfix
     sendmail	     /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
     send-mail	     /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
     mailq	     /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
     newaliases      /usr/local/sbin/sendmail

FILES    [Toc]    [Back]

     /etc/mail/mailer.conf

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     mail(1), mailq(1), newaliases(1), mailwrapper(8), sendmail(8)

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     mailer.conf appeared in NetBSD 1.4.

AUTHORS    [Toc]    [Back]

     Perry E. Metzger <[email protected]>

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The entire reason this program exists is a crock. Instead, a command for
     how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave differently
 if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like mailq(1)
     should go away.


FreeBSD 5.2.1		       December 16, 1998		 FreeBSD 5.2.1