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4ALIASES(5)                                             ALIASES(5)
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7NNAAMMEE
8       aliases - aliases file for sendmail
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10SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
11       aalliiaasseess
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13DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
14       This file describes user ID aliases used by sendmail.  The
15       file resides in /etc/mail and is formatted as a series  of
16       lines of the form
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18              name: addr_1, addr_2, addr_3, . . .
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20       The  _n_a_m_e  is  the  name  to alias, and the _a_d_d_r___n are the
21       aliases for that name.  _a_d_d_r___n can  be  another  alias,  a
22       local  username,  a  local filename, a command, an include
23       file, or an external address.
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25       LLooccaall UUsseerrnnaammee
26              username
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28              The username must be available via getpwnam(3).
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30       LLooccaall FFiilleennaammee
31              /path/name
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33              Messages are appended to the file specified by  the
34              full pathname (starting with a slash (/))
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36       CCoommmmaanndd
37              |command
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39              A  command  starts  with  a  pipe  symbol  (|),  it
40              receives messages via standard input.
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42       IInncclluuddee FFiillee
43              :include: /path/name
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45              The aliases in pathname are added  to  the  aliases
46              for _n_a_m_e_.
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48       EE--MMaaiill AAddddrreessss
49              user@domain
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51              An e-mail address in RFC 822 format.
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53       Lines  beginning  with white space are continuation lines.
54       Another way to continue lines is by  placing  a  backslash
55       directly  before  a  newline.   Lines beginning with # are
56       comments.
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58       Aliasing occurs only on local names.  Loops can not occur,
59       since  no  message  will  be  sent to any person more than
60       once.
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64                   $Date: 2003-04-08 15:09:26 $                 1
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70ALIASES(5)                                             ALIASES(5)
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73       After aliasing has been done, local and  valid  recipients
74       who  have a ``.forward'' file in their home directory have
75       messages forwarded to the list of users  defined  in  that
76       file.
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78       This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing infor-
79       mation  is  placed  into  a  binary  format  in  the  file
80       /etc/mail/aliases.db  using  the program newaliases(1).  A
81       newaliases  command  should  be  executed  each  time  the
82       aliases file is changed for the change to take effect.
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84SSEEEE AALLSSOO
85       newaliases(1), dbm(3), dbopen(3), db_open(3), sendmail(8)
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87       _S_E_N_D_M_A_I_L _I_n_s_t_a_l_l_a_t_i_o_n _a_n_d _O_p_e_r_a_t_i_o_n _G_u_i_d_e_.
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89       _S_E_N_D_M_A_I_L _A_n _I_n_t_e_r_n_e_t_w_o_r_k _M_a_i_l _R_o_u_t_e_r_.
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91BBUUGGSS
92       If  you have compiled sendmail with DBM support instead of
93       NEWDB,  you  may  have  encountered  problems  in   dbm(3)
94       restricting a single alias to about 1000 bytes of informa-
95       tion.  You can get longer aliases  by  ``chaining'';  that
96       is,  make the last name in the alias be a dummy name which
97       is a continuation alias.
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99HHIISSTTOORRYY
100       The aalliiaasseess file format appeared in 4.0BSD.
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