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39 .Nd configuration file for
43 .Pa /etc/mail/mailer.conf
44 contains a series of lines of the form
50 The first word of each line is the
54 (For example, on a typical system
55 .Pa /usr/sbin/sendmail
56 would be a symbolic link to
70 The second word of each line is the name of the
72 to actually execute when the first name is invoked.
76 if any, are passed to the
78 followed by the arguments
82 The file may also contain comment lines, denoted by a
84 mark in the first column of any line.
88 This example shows how to set up
90 to invoke the traditional
93 .Bd -literal -offset indent
94 # Execute the "real" sendmail program located in
95 # /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
96 sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
97 send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
98 mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
99 newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
102 This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like
106 .Bd -literal -offset indent
107 # Emulate sendmail using postfix
108 sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
109 send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
110 mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
111 newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
116 a sendmail-workalike with
121 .Bd -literal -offset indent
122 # Emulate sendmail using exim
123 sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim
124 send-mail /usr/local/sbin/exim
125 mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp
126 newaliases /usr/bin/true
127 rmail /usr/local/sbin/exim -i -oee
130 This example shows the use of the
132 package from ports in place of
134 Note the use of additional arguments.
135 .Bd -literal -offset indent
136 # Send outgoing mail to a smart relay using mini_sendmail
137 sendmail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost
138 send-mail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost
147 .Xr postfix 1 Pq Pa ports/mail/postfix ,
148 .Xr mini_sendmail 8 Pq Pa ports/mail/mini_sendmail
154 .An Perry E. Metzger Aq perry@piermont.com
156 The entire reason this program exists is a crock.
158 for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave
159 differently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like