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.FILES
/etc/mail/mailer.conf
EXAMPLES
The following is an example of how to set up an
mailer.conf for traditional sendmail invocation
behavior (installed from DPorts)
# Use sendmail as Mail Transfer Agent sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/bin/mailq newaliases /usr/local/bin/newaliases hoststat /usr/local/bin/hoststat purgestat /usr/local/bin/purgestat
This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like Postfix installed from DPorts to replace dma(8)
# Use postfix as Mail Transfer Agent sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/bin/mailq newaliases /usr/local/bin/newaliases hoststat /usr/bin/true purgestat /usr/bin/true
This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like OpenSMTPd installed from DPorts to replace dma(8)
# Use opensmtpd as Mail Transfer Agent sendmail /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl mailq /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl newaliases /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl hoststat /usr/bin/true purgestat /usr/bin/true
These are the default contents of the file
# Use dma as Mail Transfer Agent sendmail /usr/libexec/dma mailq /usr/libexec/dma newaliases /usr/libexec/dma hoststat /usr/libexec/dma purgestat /usr/libexec/dma
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
mailer.conf appeared in
NetBSD 1.4.
AUTHORS
Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> should go away.