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6. Configuring mailfromd

Upon startup, mailfromd reads its setting from one or more configuration files. First of all, if the GNU Mailutils configuration file exists, it is read. This file is usually ‘/etc/mailutils.rc’ or ‘/usr/local/etc/mailutils.rc’, depending on where GNU Mailutils was installed. See Mailutils Configuration File: (mailutils)configuration section `configuration' in GNU Mailutils Manual, for a description of GNU Mailutils configuration system. Secondly, mailfromd looks for its main configuration file, ‘sysconfdir/mailfromd.conf’. Here, sysconfdir stands for the system configuration directory set when building mailfromd (see section Building the Package). Usually it is ‘/etc’ or ‘/usr/local/etc’. Finally, if any additional configuration file is requested via the ‘--config-file’ command line option (see –config-file: (mailutils)Common Options section `Common Options' in GNU Mailutils Manual), it is read and parsed as well.

All configuration files use the same syntax, which is described in detail in Configuration File Syntax: (mailutils)conf-syntax section `conf-syntax' in GNU Mailutils Manual.

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