The configurable mailer can be useful for wrapping e.g. sendmail and preprocessing the e-mails before sending them to the user. The preprocessing can be for example some kind of ditching or aggregation of emails.

• Interface “mailer“:

  • Visibility: public

  • Change control: stable

  • Synopsis: server attribute

  • Details: The attribute can be set only by the manager or administrator. The attribute is a string. The value should be a path to a mailer. The default value is macro SENDMAIL_CMD.
    The mailer itself is supposed to work similarly as the sendmail (but simplified):

    • to read the body from the stdin

    • to accept “-f $from” as a parameter

    • to accept an email address as the last parameter.

  • Example: set server mailer = “/usr/bin/pbs_mail_preprocessing”