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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. |
2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
4 | .\" | |
95f51977 | 5 | .\" @(#)aliases.5 6.1 (Berkeley) 5/15/85 |
0db721a4 | 6 | .\" |
95f51977 | 7 | .TH ALIASES 5 "May 15, 1985" |
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8 | .UC 4 |
9 | .SH NAME | |
374bbcb5 | 10 | aliases \- aliases file for sendmail |
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11 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
12 | .B /usr/lib/aliases | |
13 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
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14 | This file describes user id aliases used by |
15 | .I /usr/lib/sendmail. | |
16 | It is formatted as a series of lines of the form | |
0db721a4 | 17 | .in +0.5i |
374bbcb5 | 18 | name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . . |
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19 | .in |
20 | The | |
21 | .I name | |
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22 | is the name to alias, and the |
23 | .I name_n | |
24 | are the aliases for that name. | |
25 | Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines. | |
26 | Lines beginning with `\|#\|' are comments. | |
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27 | .PP |
28 | Aliasing occurs only on local names. | |
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29 | Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once. |
30 | .LP | |
31 | After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a | |
32 | ``.forward'' file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the | |
33 | list of users defined in that file. | |
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34 | .PP |
35 | This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is | |
36 | placed into a binary format in the files | |
374bbcb5 | 37 | .I /usr/lib/aliases.dir |
0db721a4 | 38 | and |
374bbcb5 | 39 | .I /usr/lib/aliases.pag |
0db721a4 | 40 | using the program |
374bbcb5 | 41 | .IR newaliases (1). |
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42 | A |
43 | .I newaliases | |
44 | command should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for the | |
45 | change to take effect. | |
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46 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
47 | newaliases(1), dbm(3X), sendmail(8) | |
48 | .br | |
49 | SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide. | |
50 | .br | |
51 | SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router. | |
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52 | .SH BUGS |
53 | Because of restrictions in | |
374bbcb5 | 54 | .IR dbm (3X) |
0db721a4 | 55 | a single alias cannot contain more than about 1000 bytes of information. |
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56 | You can get longer aliases by ``chaining''; that is, make the last name in |
57 | the alias be a dummy name which is a continuation alias. |