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6 aliases - aliases file for sendmail
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9 /etc/aliases
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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 Aliasing occurs only on local names. Loops can not occur, since no
20 message will be sent to any person more than once.
21 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 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
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33 newaliases(1), dbm(3X), sendmail(8)
34 SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide.
35 SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router.
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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.
424th Berkeley Distribution October 22, 1996 ALIASES(5)