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MAILER.CONF(5)           DragonFly 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
     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

     mail(1), mailwrapper(8)


HISTORY

     mailer.conf appeared in NetBSD 1.4.


AUTHORS

     Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> should go away.

DragonFly 4.1                   March 29, 2015                   DragonFly 4.1

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