MAILER.CONF(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual MAILER.CONF(5)
NAME
mailer.conf - configuration file for mailwrapper(8)
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/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(8) and mailq(8) 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
`#' character in the first column of any line.
FILES
/etc/mailer.conf
EXAMPLES
The following is an example of how to set up mailer.conf for the default
smtpd(8) MTA suite:
# Emulate sendmail using smtpd
sendmail /usr/sbin/smtpctl
send-mail /usr/sbin/smtpctl
mailq /usr/sbin/smtpctl
makemap /usr/sbin/smtpctl
newaliases /usr/sbin/smtpctl
This example shows how to invoke the traditional sendmail(8) MTA suite in
place of smtpd(8):
# Execute the "real" sendmail program
sendmail /usr/local/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
send-mail /usr/local/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
mailq /usr/local/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
makemap /usr/local/libexec/sendmail/makemap
newaliases /usr/local/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
hoststat /usr/local/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
purgestat /usr/local/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
SEE ALSO
mail(1), mailq(8), mailwrapper(8), newaliases(8), smtpd(8)
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(8) should go away.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 September 17, 2018 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8