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| 4 | ALIASES(5) 1990 ALIASES(5) | |
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| 8 | N\bNA\bAM\bME\bE | |
| 9 | aliases - aliases file for sendmail | |
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| 11 | S\bSY\bYN\bNO\bOP\bPS\bSI\bIS\bS | |
| 12 | /\b/e\bet\btc\bc/\b/a\bal\bli\bia\bas\bse\bes\bs | |
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| 14 | D\bDE\bES\bSC\bCR\bRI\bIP\bPT\bTI\bIO\bON\bN | |
| 15 | This file describes user id aliases used by | |
| 16 | /_\bu_\bs_\br/_\bs_\bb_\bi_\bn/_\bs_\be_\bn_\bd_\bm_\ba_\bi_\bl. It is formatted as a series of lines of | |
| 17 | the form | |
| 18 | name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . . | |
| 19 | The _\bn_\ba_\bm_\be is the name to alias, and the _\bn_\ba_\bm_\be__\bn are the | |
| 20 | aliases for that name. Lines beginning with white space are | |
| 21 | continuation lines. Lines beginning with `#' are comments. | |
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| 23 | Aliasing occurs only on local names. Loops can not occur, | |
| 24 | since no message will be sent to any person more than once. | |
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| 26 | After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who | |
| 27 | have a ``.forward'' file in their home directory have mes- | |
| 28 | sages forwarded to the list of users defined in that file. | |
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| 30 | This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing informa- | |
| 31 | tion is placed into a binary format in the files | |
| 32 | /_\be_\bt_\bc/_\ba_\bl_\bi_\ba_\bs_\be_\bs._\bd_\bi_\br and /_\be_\bt_\bc/_\ba_\bl_\bi_\ba_\bs_\be_\bs._\bp_\ba_\bg using the program | |
| 33 | _\bn_\be_\bw_\ba_\bl_\bi_\ba_\bs_\be_\bs(1). A _\bn_\be_\bw_\ba_\bl_\bi_\ba_\bs_\be_\bs command should be executed each | |
| 34 | time the aliases file is changed for the change to take | |
| 35 | effect. | |
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| 37 | S\bSE\bEE\bE A\bAL\bLS\bSO\bO | |
| 38 | newaliases(1), dbm(3X), sendmail(8) | |
| 39 | SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide. | |
| 40 | SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router. | |
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| 42 | B\bBU\bUG\bGS\bS | |
| 43 | Because of restrictions in _\bd_\bb_\bm(3X) a single alias cannot | |
| 44 | contain more than about 1000 bytes of information. You can | |
| 45 | get longer aliases by ``chaining''; that is, make the last | |
| 46 | name in the alias be a dummy name which is a continuation | |
| 47 | alias. | |
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| 63 | Printed 7/4/90 June 1 | |
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