VMSMAIL.CONF(5)

💌 NAME 💌

/etc/vmsmail.conf — the VMSmail configuration file, bestie. Yes it's a whole file, yes it's iconic, yes it's just vibes and settings ✨

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so listen. /etc/vmsmail.conf is an ASCII file that holds the names and values of the configuration variables for the VMSmail gateway programs. That's it. That's the whole job. She's simple, she's effective, she ate 💅

The way it works is so clean: there's one entry per line, and every line looks exactly like this:

<name>=<value>

Periodt. No nesting, no drama, no YAML indent trauma 🙈

Now the valid values for <name> are these three little legends right here:

• hostname — the name of the gateway machine, i.e. the one that goes in the mail header. If you don't set it, it defaults to whatever gethostname(2) hands back. She'll figure herself out 🦋
• username — the name of the user associated with sending mail from VMS to Linux. If you leave it blank, it defaults to vmsmail. Lowkey a nice default ngl.
• smtphost — the name of the SMTP mail host to send mail to. Now this one matters: if this entry is omitted, then vmsmaild will send mail by running 'sendmail' on the local machine. So like, no smtphost = local sendmail does the work. Iykyk 🫶

🌸 EXAMPLE 🌸

Here's what it actually looks like in the wild, no cap:

hostname=myhost.domain.net
username=vms

Two lines. That's the whole config. Main character energy fr fr 💖

Heads up bestie: the format is strictly <name>=<value>, one per line — don't go freestyling the syntax, she's not that kind of file 💀

And that's the page!! This little gem comes from DECnet for Linux, dated 30 December 1998 — yeah, she's a vintage queen and she still slays 👑✨ Go forth and configure responsibly, mwah 💜