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.Dd October 8, 2010 .Dd February 11, 2016
.Dt MAILER.CONF 5 .Dt MAILER.CONF 5
.Os .Os
.Sh NAME .Sh NAME
.Nm mailer.conf .Nm mailer.conf
.Nd configuration file for .Nd configuration file for
.Xr mailwrapper 8 .Xr mailwrapper 8
.Sh DESCRIPTION .Sh DESCRIPTION
The file The file
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sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
.Ed .Ed
.Pp .Pp
This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like
.Nm Postfix .Nm Postfix
in place of instead of
.Xr sendmail 8 : .Xr sendmail 8 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent .Bd -literal -offset indent
# Emulate sendmail using postfix # Emulate sendmail using postfix
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
.Ed .Ed
.Pp .Pp
This example shows This example shows
how to invoke how to invoke
a sendmail-workalike with a sendmail-workalike with
.Nm Exim .Nm Exim
(from ports) (from ports)
in place of instead of
.Xr sendmail 8 : .Xr sendmail 8 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent .Bd -literal -offset indent
# Emulate sendmail using exim # Emulate sendmail using exim
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim
send-mail /usr/local/sbin/exim send-mail /usr/local/sbin/exim
mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp
newaliases /usr/bin/true newaliases /usr/bin/true
rmail /usr/local/sbin/exim -i -oee rmail /usr/local/sbin/exim -i -oee
.Ed .Ed
.Pp .Pp
This example shows the use of the This example shows the use of the
.Nm mini_sendmail .Nm mini_sendmail
package from ports in place of package from ports instead of
.Xr sendmail 8 . .Xr sendmail 8 .
Note the use of additional arguments. Note the use of additional arguments.
.Bd -literal -offset indent .Bd -literal -offset indent
# Send outgoing mail to a smart relay using mini_sendmail # Send outgoing mail to a smart relay using mini_sendmail
sendmail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost sendmail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost
send-mail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost send-mail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost
.Ed
.Pp
This example shows the use of
.Xr dma 8
instead of
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This is probably better like the comment, "instead of". I suspect that is more common and easier for translators.
...Ah, I see that the other examples use "in place of". Well, no time like the present to break with tradition.

wblock: This is probably better like the comment, "instead of". I suspect that is more common and…
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"in favor of" usually means the second thing is better than/preferred to/replacing the first. It is kind of confusing here.

Sometimes difficulty in simplifying a sentence means that it is trying to say to much or working too hard to get there.
What about changing this to be more direct than the original man page wording, like so:

This example shows how to use
.Xr dma 8
as a replacement for
.Xr sendmail 8 :

That could be even simpler:

Using
.Xr dma 8
to replace
.Xr sendmail 8 :
wblock: "in favor of" usually means the second thing is better than/preferred to/replacing the first.
.Xr sendmail 8 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
# Execute dma instead of sendmail
sendmail /usr/libexec/dma
send-mail /usr/libexec/dma
mailq /usr/libexec/dma
newaliases /usr/libexec/dma
rmail /usr/libexec/dma
.Ed .Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO .Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mail 1 , .Xr mail 1 ,
.Xr mailq 1 , .Xr mailq 1 ,
.Xr newaliases 1 , .Xr newaliases 1 ,
.Xr mailwrapper 8 , .Xr mailwrapper 8 ,
.Xr sendmail 8 .Xr sendmail 8
.Pp .Pp
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