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AERC-SENDMAIL(5) File Formats Manual AERC-SENDMAIL(5)

NAME

aerc-sendmail - sendmail configuration for aerc(1)

SYNOPSIS

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.

SEE ALSO

aerc(1) aerc-accounts(5)

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/.

2026-07-18