1.\" $NetBSD: mailer.conf.5,v 1.2 1999/05/29 18:18:30 christos Exp $ 2.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man5/mailer.conf.5,v 1.1.1.1.2.5 2001/08/17 13:08:47 ru Exp $ 3.\" $DragonFly: src/share/man/man5/mailer.conf.5,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:37:00 dillon Exp $ 4.\" 5.\" Copyright (c) 1998 6.\" Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 17.\" must display the following acknowledgment: 18.\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project 19.\" by Perry E. Metzger. 20.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 21.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 25.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 26.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 27.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 28.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 29.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 30.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 31.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 32.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" The following requests are required for all man pages. 35.Dd December 16, 1998 36.Dt MAILER.CONF 5 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm mailer.conf 40.Nd configuration file for 41.Xr mailwrapper 8 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43The file 44.Pa /etc/mail/mailer.conf 45contains a series of pairs. The first member of each pair is the name 46of a program invoking 47.Xr mailwrapper 8 48which is typically a symbolic link to 49.Pa /usr/sbin/sendmail . 50(On a typical system, 51.Xr newaliases 1 52and 53.Xr mailq 1 54would be set up this way.) 55The second member of each pair is the name of the program to 56actually execute when the first name is invoked. The file may also 57contain comments, denoted by a # mark in the first column of any line. 58.Sh EXAMPLES 59The following is an example of how to set up an 60.Nm 61for traditional sendmail invocation behavior. 62.Bd -literal 63# Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 64sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 65send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 66mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 67newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 68.Ed 69.Pp 70This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like Postfix in 71place of sendmail. 72.Bd -literal 73# Emulate sendmail using postfix 74sendmail /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail 75send-mail /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail 76mailq /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail 77newaliases /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail 78.Ed 79.Sh FILES 80/etc/mail/mailer.conf 81.Sh SEE ALSO 82.Xr mail 1 , 83.Xr mailq 1 , 84.Xr newaliases 1 , 85.Xr mailwrapper 8 , 86.Xr sendmail 8 87.Sh HISTORY 88.Nm 89appeared in 90.Nx 1.4 . 91.Sh AUTHORS 92Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> 93.Sh BUGS 94The entire reason this program exists is a crock. Instead, a command 95for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave 96differently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like 97.Xr mailq 1 98should go away. 99