1 .\" $NetBSD: mailer.conf.5,v 1.2 1999/05/29 18:18:30 christos Exp $
4 .\" Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved.
6 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
7 .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.
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.
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.
87 .It Pa /etc/mail/mailer.conf
90 This example shows how to set up
92 to invoke the traditional
95 .Bd -literal -offset indent
96 # Execute the "real" sendmail program located in
97 # /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
98 sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
99 send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
100 mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
101 newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
104 This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like
108 .Bd -literal -offset indent
109 # Emulate sendmail using postfix
110 sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
111 send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
112 mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
113 newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
118 a sendmail-workalike with
123 .Bd -literal -offset indent
124 # Emulate sendmail using exim
125 sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim
126 send-mail /usr/local/sbin/exim
127 mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp
128 newaliases /usr/bin/true
129 rmail /usr/local/sbin/exim -i -oee
132 This example shows the use of the
134 package from ports in place of
136 Note the use of additional arguments.
137 .Bd -literal -offset indent
138 # Send outgoing mail to a smart relay using mini_sendmail
139 sendmail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost
140 send-mail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost
149 .Xr postfix 1 Pq Pa ports/mail/postfix ,
150 .Xr mini_sendmail 8 Pq Pa ports/mail/mini_sendmail
156 .An Perry E. Metzger Aq perry@piermont.com
158 The entire reason this program exists is a crock.
160 for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave
161 differently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like