| 1 | .TH ALIASES 5 12/31/79 |
| 2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | aliases \- aliases file for delivermail |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 5 | /usr/lib/aliases |
| 6 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 7 | This file describes user id aliases |
| 8 | that will be used |
| 9 | by |
| 10 | .I /etc/delivermail. |
| 11 | It is formatted as a series of lines |
| 12 | of the form |
| 13 | .in +0.5i |
| 14 | name:addr1,addr2,...addrn |
| 15 | .in |
| 16 | The |
| 17 | .I name |
| 18 | is the name to alias, |
| 19 | and the |
| 20 | .I addri |
| 21 | are the addresses to send the message to. |
| 22 | Lines beginning with white space |
| 23 | are continuation lines. |
| 24 | Lines beginning with `\|#\|' |
| 25 | are comments. |
| 26 | .PP |
| 27 | Aliasing occurs only on local names. |
| 28 | Loops can not occur, |
| 29 | since no message will be sent to any person |
| 30 | more than once. |
| 31 | .SH SEE\ ALSO |
| 32 | delivermail(8) |
| 33 | .SH BUGS |