aerc-sendmail(5)

aerc-sendmail5

Sendmail configuration for aerc(1)

Usage

aerc can defer to sendmail for the delivery of outgoing messages.

Configuration

Basic sendmail configuration may be done interactively with the :new-account command.

In accounts.conf (see aerc-accounts(5)), the following sendmail-specific options are available:

outgoing = </path/to/sendmail>

This should be set to the path to the sendmail binary you wish to use, which is generally /usr/sbin/sendmail. aerc will execute it with a list of recipients on the command line and pipe the message to deliver to stdin.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 12
  2. 13
  3. Arch

Authors

Originally created by Drew DeVault and maintained by Robin Jarry who is assisted by other open source contributors. For more information about aerc development, see https://sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/.

From aerc 0.22.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.