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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1985 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| 0db721a4 | 3 | .\" |
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4 | .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted |
| 5 | .\" provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are | |
| 6 | .\" duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, | |
| 7 | .\" advertising materials, and other materials related to such | |
| 8 | .\" distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed | |
| 9 | .\" by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the | |
| 10 | .\" University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived | |
| 11 | .\" from this software without specific prior written permission. | |
| 12 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR | |
| 13 | .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED | |
| 14 | .\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |
| 15 | .\" | |
| 16 | .\" @(#)aliases.5 6.2 (Berkeley) %G% | |
| 0db721a4 | 17 | .\" |
| 3672e047 | 18 | .TH ALIASES 5 "" |
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19 | .UC 4 |
| 20 | .SH NAME | |
| 374bbcb5 | 21 | aliases \- aliases file for sendmail |
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22 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 23 | .B /usr/lib/aliases | |
| 24 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
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25 | This file describes user id aliases used by |
| 26 | .I /usr/lib/sendmail. | |
| 27 | It is formatted as a series of lines of the form | |
| 0db721a4 | 28 | .in +0.5i |
| 374bbcb5 | 29 | name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . . |
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30 | .in |
| 31 | The | |
| 32 | .I name | |
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33 | is the name to alias, and the |
| 34 | .I name_n | |
| 35 | are the aliases for that name. | |
| 36 | Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines. | |
| 37 | Lines beginning with `\|#\|' are comments. | |
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38 | .PP |
| 39 | Aliasing occurs only on local names. | |
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40 | Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once. |
| 41 | .LP | |
| 42 | After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a | |
| 43 | ``.forward'' file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the | |
| 44 | list of users defined in that file. | |
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45 | .PP |
| 46 | This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is | |
| 47 | placed into a binary format in the files | |
| 374bbcb5 | 48 | .I /usr/lib/aliases.dir |
| 0db721a4 | 49 | and |
| 374bbcb5 | 50 | .I /usr/lib/aliases.pag |
| 0db721a4 | 51 | using the program |
| 374bbcb5 | 52 | .IR newaliases (1). |
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53 | A |
| 54 | .I newaliases | |
| 55 | command should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for the | |
| 56 | change to take effect. | |
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57 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 58 | newaliases(1), dbm(3X), sendmail(8) | |
| 59 | .br | |
| 60 | SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide. | |
| 61 | .br | |
| 62 | SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router. | |
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63 | .SH BUGS |
| 64 | Because of restrictions in | |
| 374bbcb5 | 65 | .IR dbm (3X) |
| 0db721a4 | 66 | a single alias cannot contain more than about 1000 bytes of information. |
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67 | You can get longer aliases by ``chaining''; that is, make the last name in |
| 68 | the alias be a dummy name which is a continuation alias. |