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