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  34 .Dd October 8, 2010
  35 .Dt MAILER.CONF 4
  36 .Os
  37 .Sh NAME
  38 .Nm mailer.conf
  39 .Nd configuration file for
  40 .Xr mailwrapper 1M
  41 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  42 The file
  43 .Pa /etc/mailer.conf
  44 contains a series of lines of the form
  45 .Pp
  46 .Ar name
  47 .Ar program
  48 .Op Ar arguments ...
  49 .Pp
  50 The first word of each line is the
  51 .Ar name
  52 of a program invoking
  53 .Xr mailwrapper 1M .
  54 (For example, on a typical system
  55 .Pa /usr/lib/sendmail
  56 would be a symbolic link to
  57 .Xr mailwrapper 1M ,
  58 as would
  59 .Xr newaliases 1M
  60 and
  61 .Xr mailq 1 .
  62 Thus,
  63 .Ar name
  64 might be
  65 .Dq Li sendmail
  66 or
  67 .Dq Li newaliases
  68 etc.)
  69 .Pp
  70 The second word of each line is the name of the
  71 .Ar program
  72 to actually execute when the first name is invoked.
  73 .Pp
  74 The further
  75 .Ar arguments ,
  76 if any, are passed to the
  77 .Ar program ,
  78 followed by the arguments
  79 .Xr mailwrapper 1M
  80 was called with.
  81 .Pp
  82 The file may also contain comment lines, denoted by a
  83 .Ql #
  84 mark in the first column of any line.
  85 .Sh FILES
  86 /etc/mail/mailer.conf
  87 .Sh EXAMPLES
  88 This example shows how to set up
  89 .Nm
  90 to invoke the traditional
  91 .Xr sendmail 1M
  92 program:
  93 .Bd -literal -offset indent
  94 # Execute the "real" sendmail program located in
  95 # /usr/lib/smtp/sendmail/sendmail
  96 sendmail        /usr/lib/smtp/sendmail/sendmail
  97 mailq           /usr/lib/smtp/sendmail/sendmail
  98 newaliases      /usr/lib/smtp/sendmail/sendmail
  99 .Ed
 100 .Sh SEE ALSO
 101 .Xr mail 1 ,
 102 .Xr mailq 1 ,
 103 .Xr newaliases 1M ,
 104 .Xr mailwrapper 1M ,
 105 .Xr sendmail 1M
 106 .Sh AUTHORS
 107 .An Perry E. Metzger Aq perry@piermont.com