1ALIASES(5)                    File Formats Manual                   ALIASES(5)
2
3
4

NAME

6       aliases - aliases file for sendmail
7

SYNOPSIS

9       /etc/aliases
10

DESCRIPTION

12       This  file describes user id aliases used by /usr/sbin/sendmail.  It is
13       formatted as a series of lines of the form
14            name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . .
15       The name is the name to alias, and the name_n are the aliases for  that
16       name.   Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines.  Lines
17       beginning with `#' are comments.
18
19       Aliasing occurs only on local names.  Loops can  not  occur,  since  no
20       message will be sent to any person more than once.
21
22       After  aliasing  has  been  done, local and valid recipients who have a
23       ``.forward'' file in their home directory have  messages  forwarded  to
24       the list of users defined in that file.
25
26       This  is  only  the  raw  data file; the actual aliasing information is
27       placed  into  a  binary  format  in  the  files  /etc/aliases.dir   and
28       /etc/aliases.pag using the program newaliases(1).  A newaliases command
29       should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for the change
30       to take effect.
31

SEE ALSO

33       newaliases(1), dbm(3X), sendmail(8)
34       SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide.
35       SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router.
36

BUGS

38       Because  of  restrictions in dbm(3X) a single alias cannot contain more
39       than about 1000 bytes of information.  You can get  longer  aliases  by
40       ``chaining'';  that is, make the last name in the alias be a dummy name
41       which is a continuation alias.
42
43
44
454th Berkeley Distribution      October 22, 1996                     ALIASES(5)
Impressum