| mailer.conf.5 (81625) | mailer.conf.5 (131530) |
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| 1.\" $NetBSD: mailer.conf.5,v 1.2 1999/05/29 18:18:30 christos Exp $ | 1.\" $NetBSD: mailer.conf.5,v 1.2 1999/05/29 18:18:30 christos Exp $ |
| 2.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man5/mailer.conf.5 81625 2001-08-14 11:58:07Z ru $ | 2.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man5/mailer.conf.5 131530 2004-07-03 18:29:24Z ru $ |
| 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 1998 5.\" Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright --- 25 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm mailer.conf 39.Nd configuration file for 40.Xr mailwrapper 8 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The file 43.Pa /etc/mail/mailer.conf | 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 1998 5.\" Perry E. Metzger. All rights reserved. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright --- 25 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm mailer.conf 39.Nd configuration file for 40.Xr mailwrapper 8 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The file 43.Pa /etc/mail/mailer.conf |
| 44contains a series of pairs. The first member of each pair is the name | 44contains a series of pairs. 45The first member of each pair is the name |
| 45of a program invoking 46.Xr mailwrapper 8 47which is typically a symbolic link to 48.Pa /usr/sbin/sendmail . 49(On a typical system, 50.Xr newaliases 1 51and 52.Xr mailq 1 53would be set up this way.) 54The second member of each pair is the name of the program to | 46of a program invoking 47.Xr mailwrapper 8 48which is typically a symbolic link to 49.Pa /usr/sbin/sendmail . 50(On a typical system, 51.Xr newaliases 1 52and 53.Xr mailq 1 54would be set up this way.) 55The second member of each pair is the name of the program to |
| 55actually execute when the first name is invoked. The file may also | 56actually execute when the first name is invoked. 57The file may also |
| 56contain comments, denoted by a # mark in the first column of any line. 57.Sh EXAMPLES 58The following is an example of how to set up an 59.Nm 60for traditional sendmail invocation behavior. 61.Bd -literal 62# Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 63sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail --- 19 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 83.Xr newaliases 1 , 84.Xr mailwrapper 8 , 85.Xr sendmail 8 86.Sh HISTORY 87.Nm 88appeared in 89.Nx 1.4 . 90.Sh AUTHORS | 58contain comments, denoted by a # mark in the first column of any line. 59.Sh EXAMPLES 60The following is an example of how to set up an 61.Nm 62for traditional sendmail invocation behavior. 63.Bd -literal 64# Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail 65sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail --- 19 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 85.Xr newaliases 1 , 86.Xr mailwrapper 8 , 87.Xr sendmail 8 88.Sh HISTORY 89.Nm 90appeared in 91.Nx 1.4 . 92.Sh AUTHORS |
| 91Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> | 93.An Perry E. Metzger Aq perry@piermont.com |
| 92.Sh BUGS | 94.Sh BUGS |
| 93The entire reason this program exists is a crock. Instead, a command | 95The entire reason this program exists is a crock. 96Instead, a command |
| 94for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave 95differently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like 96.Xr mailq 1 97should go away. | 97for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave 98differently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like 99.Xr mailq 1 100should go away. |