| 1 | ALIASES(5) BSD Programmer's Manual ALIASES(5) |
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| 3 | NNAAMMEE |
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| 4 | aalliiaasseess - aliases file for sendmail |
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| 5 | |
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| 6 | SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS |
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| 7 | aalliiaasseess |
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| 8 | |
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| 9 | DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN |
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| 10 | This file describes user ID aliases used by _/_u_s_r_/_s_b_i_n_/_s_e_n_d_m_a_i_l. The file |
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| 11 | resides in _/_e_t_c and is formatted as a series of lines of the form |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . . |
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| 14 | |
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| 15 | The _n_a_m_e is the name to alias, and the _n_a_m_e___n are the aliases for that |
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| 16 | name. Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines. Lines |
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| 17 | beginning with `#' are comments. |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | Aliasing occurs only on local names. Loops can not occur, since no mes- |
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| 20 | sage will be sent to any person more than once. |
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| 22 | After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a |
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| 23 | ``_._f_o_r_w_a_r_d'' file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the |
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| 24 | list of users defined in that file. |
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| 26 | This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is placed |
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| 27 | into a binary format in the file _/_e_t_c_/_a_l_i_a_s_e_s_._d_b using the program |
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| 28 | newaliases(1). A newaliases command should be executed each time the |
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| 29 | aliases file is changed for the change to take effect. |
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| 31 | SSEEEE AALLSSOO |
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| 32 | newaliases(1), dbopen(3), dbm(3), sendmail(8) |
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| 33 | |
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| 34 | _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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| 36 | _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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| 37 | |
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| 38 | BBUUGGSS |
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| 39 | If you have compiled sendmail with DBM support instead of NEWDB, you may |
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| 40 | have encountered problems in dbm(3) restricting a single alias to about |
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| 41 | 1000 bytes of information. You can get longer aliases by ``chaining''; |
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| 42 | that is, make the last name in the alias be a dummy name which is a con- |
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| 43 | tinuation alias. |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | HHIISSTTOORRYY |
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| 46 | The aalliiaasseess file format appeared in 4.0BSD. |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | 4th Berkeley Distribution May 19, 1998 1 |
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