AERC-SENDMAIL(5)

✨ aerc-sendmail 💌 — the file-formats-manual girlies know ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to aerc-sendmail — the sendmail config page for aerc(1). yes, it's a section 5 file formats manual, and yes, it's lowkey iconic. let's get into it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

aerc-sendmail — the sendmail configuration situation for aerc(1). that's it, that's the name, slay 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

so here's the vibe: aerc can defer to sendmail for the delivery of outgoing messages. like, it hands the whole thing off. main character delegation energy, honestly 👑

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🍓 CONFIGURATION 🍓

basic sendmail configuration can be done interactively with the :new-account command. cute, easy, no cap ✨

then, in accounts.conf (go peek at aerc-accounts(5) for the full tea 🫖), the following sendmail-specific options are available:

• outgoing = </path/to/sendmail> — set this to the path of the sendmail binary you wanna use, which is generally /usr/sbin/sendmail. aerc will execute it with a list of recipients on the command line, and pipe the message to deliver to stdin. so it's like, "here's the mail, here's the people, go off" 📨

fr fr, get that path right — <italic>/path/to/sendmail</italic> is literally a placeholder, not a real directory, iykyk 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• aerc(1)
• aerc-accounts(5)

go read them, they're giving required reading 💜

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

originally created by Drew DeVault and maintained by Robin Jarry, who is assisted by other open source contributors. for more info about aerc development, see https://sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/ — the whole crew ate and left no crumbs 🫶

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and that's the page, bestie!! 🧚 this was the AERC-SENDMAIL(5) of the file formats manual, dated 2026-09-07 — mwah, go send some mail 💌⭐