nullmailer(7)
β¨ NAME β¨
nullmailer β okay bestie, this is the overview of nullmailer documentation π it's the little map that tells you where all the other nullmailer manpages live, and ngl it's giving very "start here" energy π
(also hi, this is the nullmailer(7) page from the Miscellaneous Information Manual β section 7, we love a miscellaneous moment π
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πΈ INTRODUCTION πΈ
nullmailer is a simple and secure relay-only mail transport agent. That's it, that's the whole vibe. Simple. Secure. Relay-only. Periodt. β¨
Now, the way messages get reformatted and injected into the queue? That whole saga is documented over in nullmailer-inject(1) π¬
And the way messages actually get inserted into the queue? That's nullmailer-queue(8), bestie π«Ά
And the process of sending queued messages? Say less β that's nullmailer-send(8) π
π the control files π
okay so here's the moment you've been waiting for β the following table lists all the control files used by nullmailer. I'm giving it to you as a list because we're in our list era and honestly it hits different π
adminaddrβ used bynullmailer-dsn,nullmailer-queueallmailfromβ used bynullmailer-queuedefaultdomainβ used bynullmailer-dsn,nullmailer-injectdefaulthostβ used bynullmailer-dsn,nullmailer-injectdoublebouncetoβ used bynullmailer-dsnhelohostβ used bynullmailer-sendidhostβ used bynullmailer-dsn,nullmailer-injectmaxpauseβ used bynullmailer-sendmeβ used bynullmailer-dsn,nullmailer-injectpausetimeβ used bynullmailer-sendremotesβ used bynullmailer-sendsendtimeoutβ used bynullmailer-send
π do NOT lose track of which daemon reads which file, bestie βnullmailer-dsn,nullmailer-inject,nullmailer-queueandnullmailer-sendeach have their own little faves and the list above is the receipts π₯
and that's the whole page, no cap π¦ shoutout to nullmailer(7) from the Miscellaneous Information Manual β go read the other pages, they ate and left no crumbs π πβ¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- arch rolling: nullmailer 2.2-4 Β· GPL2
- debian bookworm: nullmailer 1:2.2-4 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- debian trixie: nullmailer 1:2.2+10~g7ed88a0-6.1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- nixos 26.05: nullmailer 2.2
- nixpkgs unstable: nullmailer 2.2
- ubuntu jammy: nullmailer 1:2.2-3build1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu noble: nullmailer 1:2.2+10~g7ed88a0-2build2 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu questing: nullmailer 1:2.2+10~g7ed88a0-6.1
- ubuntu resolute: nullmailer 1:2.2+10~g7ed88a0-6.1build1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: nullmailer 1:2.2+10~g7ed88a0-6.1build1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
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