---
name: "aerc-sendmail"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "aerc"
version: "0.22.0-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/aerc-sendmail"
---

# aerc-sendmail(5)

sendmail configuration for aerc(1)

## NAME

aerc-sendmail - sendmail configuration for [**aerc**(1)](/aerc/1.md)

## 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)](/aerc-accounts/5.md)), 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/1.md) [**aerc-accounts**(5)](/aerc-accounts/5.md)

## 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/*.