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 March 9, 2015 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 (installed from DPorts) 63.Bd -literal 64# Use sendmail as Mail Transfer Agent 65sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 66mailq /usr/local/bin/mailq 67newaliases /usr/local/bin/newaliases 68hoststat /usr/local/bin/hoststat 69purgestat /usr/local/bin/purgestat 70.Ed 71.Pp 72This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like Postfix 73installed from DPorts to replace 74.Xr dma 8 75.Bd -literal 76# Use postfix as Mail Transfer Agent 77sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail 78mailq /usr/local/bin/mailq 79newaliases /usr/local/bin/newaliases 80hoststat true 81purgestat true 82.Ed 83.Pp 84This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like OpenSMTPd 85installed from DPorts to replace 86.Xr dma 8 87.Bd -literal 88# Use opensmtpd as Mail Transfer Agent 89sendmail /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl 90mailq /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl 91newaliases /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl 92hoststat true 93purgestat true 94.Ed 95.Pp 96These are the default contents of the file 97.Bd -literal 98# Use dma as Mail Transfer Agent 99sendmail /usr/libexec/dma 100mailq /usr/libexec/dma 101newaliases true 102hoststat true 103purgestat true 104.Ed 105.Sh SEE ALSO 106.Xr mail 1 , 107.Xr mailwrapper 8 108.Sh HISTORY 109.Nm 110appeared in 111.Nx 1.4 . 112.Sh AUTHORS 113.An Perry E. Metzger Aq Mt perry@piermont.com 114should go away. 115