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NAME
mailer.conf -- configuration file for mailwrapper(8)
DESCRIPTION
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.
FILES
/etc/mail/mailer.conf
EXAMPLES
The following is an example of how to set up an mailer.conf for
traditional sendmail invocation behavior (installed from DPorts)
# Use sendmail as Mail Transfer Agent
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq /usr/local/bin/mailq
newaliases /usr/local/bin/newaliases
hoststat /usr/local/bin/hoststat
purgestat /usr/local/bin/purgestat
This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like Postfix
installed from DPorts to replace dma(8)
# Use postfix as Mail Transfer Agent
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq /usr/local/bin/mailq
newaliases /usr/local/bin/newaliases
hoststat /usr/bin/true
purgestat /usr/bin/true
This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like OpenSMTPd
installed from DPorts to replace dma(8)
# Use opensmtpd as Mail Transfer Agent
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl
mailq /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl
newaliases /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl
hoststat /usr/bin/true
purgestat /usr/bin/true
These are the default contents of the file
# Use dma as Mail Transfer Agent
sendmail /usr/libexec/dma
mailq /usr/libexec/dma
newaliases /usr/libexec/dma
hoststat /usr/libexec/dma
purgestat /usr/libexec/dma
SEE ALSO
mail(1), mailwrapper(8)
HISTORY
mailer.conf appeared in NetBSD 1.4.
AUTHORS
Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> should go away.
DragonFly 4.1 March 29, 2015 DragonFly 4.1