1.\" $NetBSD: mailer.conf.5,v 1.13 2004/07/22 03:44:12 atatat Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1998 4.\" Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgment: 16.\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project 17.\" by Perry E. Metzger. 18.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 19.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 20.\" 21.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 23.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 24.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 25.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 26.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 27.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 28.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 29.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 30.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.Dd July 17, 2004 33.Dt MAILER.CONF 5 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm mailer.conf 37.Nd configuration file for 38.Xr mailwrapper 8 39.Sh DESCRIPTION 40The file 41.Pa /etc/mailer.conf 42contains a series of lines of the form 43.Pp 44.Pa name 45.Pa program 46.Op Ar arguments ... 47.Pp 48The first word of each line is the 49.Pa name 50of a program invoking 51.Xr mailwrapper 8 . 52(For example, on a typical system 53.Pa /usr/sbin/sendmail 54would be a symbolic link to 55.Xr mailwrapper 8 , 56as would 57.Xr newaliases 1 58and 59.Xr mailq 1 . 60Thus, 61.Pa name 62might be 63.Dq sendmail 64or 65.Dq newaliases 66etc.) 67.Pp 68The second word of each line is the name of the 69.Pa program 70to actually execute when the first name is invoked. 71.Pp 72The further 73.Ar arguments , 74if any, are passed to the 75.Pa program , 76followed by the arguments 77.Xr mailwrapper 8 78was called with. 79.Pp 80The file may also contain comment lines, denoted by a 81.Sq # 82mark in the first column of any line. 83.Pp 84The default mailer is 85.Xr sendmail 8 , 86which will also start by default (unless specifically disabled via an 87.Xr rc.conf 5 88setting) so that locally generated mail can be delivered, if the 89.Dq sendmail 90setting in 91.Pa /etc/mailer.conf 92is set to 93.Dq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail . 94.Sh FILES 95/etc/mailer.conf 96.Sh EXAMPLES 97This example shows how to set up 98.Nm 99to invoke the traditional 100.Xr sendmail 8 101program: 102.Bd -literal -offset indent 103# Execute the "real" sendmail program located in 104# /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 105sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 106send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 107mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 108newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 109hoststat /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 110purgestat /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 111.Ed 112.Pp 113This example shows how to invoke the 114.Xr postfix 1 115MTA suite in place of 116.Xr sendmail 8 : 117.Bd -literal -offset indent 118# Emulate sendmail using postfix 119sendmail /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail 120send-mail /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail 121mailq /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail 122newaliases /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail 123.Ed 124.Pp 125This example shows the use of the mini-sendmail package from pkgsrc 126in place of 127.Xr sendmail 8 : 128Note the use of additional arguments. 129.Bd -literal -offset indent 130# Send outgoing mail to a smart relay using mini-sendmail 131sendmail /usr/pkg/sbin/mini-sendmail -srelayhost 132send-mail /usr/pkg/sbin/mini-sendmail -srelayhost 133.Ed 134.Sh SEE ALSO 135.Xr mail 1 , 136.Xr mailq 1 , 137.Xr newaliases 1 , 138.Xr postfix 1 , 139.Xr mailwrapper 8 , 140.Xr sendmail 8 141.Pp 142.Pa pkgsrc/mail/mini_sendmail 143.Sh HISTORY 144.Nm 145appeared in 146.Nx 1.4 . 147.Sh AUTHORS 148.An Perry E. Metzger Aq perry@piermont.com 149.Sh BUGS 150The entire reason this program exists is a crock. 151Instead, a command 152for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave 153differently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like 154.Xr mailq 1 155should go away. 156