MAILER.CONF(5)

NAME

     mailer.conf -- configuration file for mailwrapper(8)

DESCRIPTION

     The file /etc/mail/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(1) and mailq(1) 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 # mark in the first column of any line.

EXAMPLES

     The following is an example of how to set up an mailer.conf for tradi-
     tional sendmail invocation behavior.

     # Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
     sendmail	     /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
     send-mail	     /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
     mailq	     /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
     newaliases      /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail

     This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like Postfix in
     place of sendmail.

     # Emulate sendmail using postfix
     sendmail	     /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
     send-mail	     /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
     mailq	     /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
     newaliases      /usr/local/sbin/sendmail

FILES

     /etc/mail/mailer.conf

SEE ALSO

     mail(1), mailq(1), newaliases(1), mailwrapper(8), sendmail(8)

HISTORY

     mailer.conf appeared in NetBSD 1.4.

AUTHORS

     Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>

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 differ-
     ently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like mailq(1)
     should go away.