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38 .Nd configuration file for
42 .Pa /etc/mail/mailer.conf
43 contains a series of pairs. The first member of each pair is the name
46 which is typically a symbolic link to
47 .Pa /usr/sbin/sendmail .
52 would be set up this way.)
53 The second member of each pair is the name of the program to
54 actually execute when the first name is invoked. The file may also
55 contain comments, denoted by a # mark in the first column of any line.
59 The following is an example of how to set up an
61 for traditional sendmail invocation behavior (installed from DPorts)
63 # Use sendmail as Mail Transfer Agent
64 sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
65 mailq /usr/local/bin/mailq
66 newaliases /usr/local/bin/newaliases
67 hoststat /usr/local/bin/hoststat
68 purgestat /usr/local/bin/purgestat
71 This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like Postfix
72 installed from DPorts to replace
75 # Use postfix as Mail Transfer Agent
76 sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
77 mailq /usr/local/bin/mailq
78 newaliases /usr/local/bin/newaliases
79 hoststat /usr/bin/true
80 purgestat /usr/bin/true
83 This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like OpenSMTPd
84 installed from DPorts to replace
87 # Use opensmtpd as Mail Transfer Agent
88 sendmail /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl
89 mailq /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl
90 newaliases /usr/local/sbin/smtpctl
91 hoststat /usr/bin/true
92 purgestat /usr/bin/true
95 These are the default contents of the file
97 # Use dma as Mail Transfer Agent
98 sendmail /usr/libexec/dma
99 mailq /usr/libexec/dma
100 newaliases /usr/libexec/dma
101 hoststat /usr/libexec/dma
102 purgestat /usr/libexec/dma
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