MAILER.CONF(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual MAILER.CONF(5)
NAME
mailer.conf - configuration file for mailwrapper(8)
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/mail/mailer.conf contains a series of lines of the form
name program [arguments ...]
The first word of each line is the name of a program invoking
mailwrapper(8). (For example, on a typical system /usr/sbin/sendmail
would be a symbolic link to mailwrapper(8), as would newaliases(1) and
mailq(1). Thus, name might be "sendmail" or "newaliases" etc.)
The second word of each line is the name of the program to actually
execute when the first name is invoked.
The further arguments, if any, are passed to the program, followed by the
arguments mailwrapper(8) was called with.
The file may also contain comment lines, denoted by a `#' mark in the
first column of any line.
FILES
/etc/mail/mailer.conf
EXAMPLES
This example shows how to set up mailer.conf to invoke the traditional
sendmail(8) program:
# Execute the "real" sendmail program located in
# /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
Using Postfix (from ports) to replace sendmail(8):
# Emulate sendmail using postfix
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
Using Exim (from ports) to replace sendmail(8):
# Emulate sendmail using exim
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim
mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp
newaliases /usr/bin/true
rmail /usr/local/sbin/exim -i -oee
Using mini_sendmail (from ports) to replace sendmail(8):
# Send outgoing mail to a smart relay using mini_sendmail
sendmail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost
Using dma(8) to replace sendmail(8):
# Execute dma instead of sendmail
sendmail /usr/libexec/dma
mailq /usr/libexec/dma
newaliases /usr/libexec/dma
rmail /usr/libexec/dma
SEE ALSO
mail(1), mailq(1), newaliases(1), dma(8), mailwrapper(8), sendmail(8)
postfix(1) (ports/mail/postfix), dma(8) (ports/mail/dma), exim(8)
(ports/mail/exim), mini_sendmail(8) (ports/mail/mini_sendmail)
HISTORY
mailer.conf appeared in NetBSD 1.4.
AUTHORS
Perry E. Metzger <
[email protected]>
BUGS
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 14.1-RELEASE-p8 December 26, 2017 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8