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MAILER.CONF(5)		    BSD File Formats Manual		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 mem‐
     ber 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 sys‐
     tem, 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.

FILES
     /etc/mail/mailer.conf

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/libexec/postfix/sendmail
     send-mail	     /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail
     mailq	     /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail
     newaliases	     /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail

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.

BSD			       December 16, 1998			   BSD

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