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1 | .TH ALIASES 5 "15 January 1983" |
2 | .SH NAME | |
3 | aliases \- aliases file for sendmail | |
4 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
5 | .B /usr/lib/aliases | |
6 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
7 | This file describes user id aliases used by | |
8 | .I /usr/lib/sendmail. | |
9 | It is formatted as a series of lines of the form | |
10 | .in +0.5i | |
11 | name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . . | |
12 | .in | |
13 | The | |
14 | .I name | |
15 | is the name to alias, and the | |
16 | .I name_n | |
17 | are the aliases for that name. | |
18 | Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines. | |
19 | Lines beginning with `\|#\|' are comments. | |
20 | .PP | |
21 | Aliasing occurs only on local names. | |
22 | Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once. | |
23 | .LP | |
24 | After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a | |
25 | ``.forward'' file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the | |
26 | list of users defined in that file. | |
27 | .PP | |
28 | This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is | |
29 | placed into a binary format in the files | |
30 | .I /usr/lib/aliases.dir | |
31 | and | |
32 | .I /usr/lib/aliases.pag | |
33 | using the program | |
34 | .IR newaliases (1). | |
35 | A | |
36 | .I newaliases | |
37 | command should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for the | |
38 | change to take effect. | |
39 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
40 | newaliases(1), dbm(3), sendmail(8) | |
41 | .br | |
42 | SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide. | |
43 | .br | |
44 | SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router. | |
45 | .SH BUGS | |
46 | Because of restrictions in | |
47 | .IR dbm (3) | |
48 | a single alias cannot contain more than about 1000 bytes of information. | |
49 | You can get longer aliases by ``chaining''; that is, make the last name in | |
50 | the alias be a dummy name which is a continuation alias. |