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| 2 | .so /usr/athena/share/tmac/tmac.doc |
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| 3 | .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Sendmail, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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| 4 | .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1997 Eric P. Allman. All rights reserved. |
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| 5 | .\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993 |
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| 6 | .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. |
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| 7 | .\" |
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| 8 | .\" By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set |
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| 9 | .\" forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of |
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| 10 | .\" the sendmail distribution. |
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| 11 | .\" |
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| 12 | .\" |
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| 13 | .\" @(#)aliases.5 8.8 (Berkeley) 5/19/1998 |
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| 14 | .\" |
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| 15 | .Dd May 19, 1998 |
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| 16 | .Dt ALIASES 5 |
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| 17 | .Os BSD 4 |
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| 18 | .Sh NAME |
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| 19 | .Nm aliases |
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| 20 | .Nd aliases file for sendmail |
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| 21 | .Sh SYNOPSIS |
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| 22 | .Nm aliases |
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| 23 | .Sh DESCRIPTION |
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| 24 | This file describes user |
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| 25 | .Tn ID |
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| 26 | aliases used by |
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| 27 | .Pa /usr/sbin/sendmail . |
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| 28 | The file resides in |
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| 29 | .Pa /etc |
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| 30 | and |
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| 31 | is formatted as a series of lines of the form |
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| 32 | .Bd -filled -offset indent |
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| 33 | name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . . |
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| 34 | .Ed |
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| 35 | .Pp |
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| 36 | The |
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| 37 | .Em name |
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| 38 | is the name to alias, and the |
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| 39 | .Em name_n |
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| 40 | are the aliases for that name. |
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| 41 | Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines. |
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| 42 | Lines beginning with |
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| 43 | .Ql # |
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| 44 | are comments. |
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| 45 | .Pp |
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| 46 | Aliasing occurs only on local names. |
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| 47 | Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once. |
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| 48 | .Pp |
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| 49 | After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a |
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| 50 | .Dq Pa .forward |
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| 51 | file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the |
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| 52 | list of users defined in that file. |
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| 53 | .Pp |
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| 54 | This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is |
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| 55 | placed into a binary format in the file |
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| 56 | .Pa /etc/aliases.db |
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| 57 | using the program |
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| 58 | .Xr newaliases 1 . |
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| 59 | A |
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| 60 | .Xr newaliases |
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| 61 | command should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for the |
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| 62 | change to take effect. |
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| 63 | .Sh SEE ALSO |
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| 64 | .Xr newaliases 1 , |
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| 65 | .Xr dbopen 3 , |
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| 66 | .Xr dbm 3 , |
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| 67 | .Xr sendmail 8 |
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| 68 | .Rs |
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| 69 | .%T "SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide" |
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| 70 | .Re |
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| 71 | .Rs |
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| 72 | .%T "SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router" |
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| 73 | .Re |
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| 74 | .Sh BUGS |
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| 75 | If you have compiled |
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| 76 | .Xr sendmail |
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| 77 | with DBM support instead of NEWDB, |
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| 78 | you may have encountered problems in |
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| 79 | .Xr dbm 3 |
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| 80 | restricting a single alias to about 1000 bytes of information. |
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| 81 | You can get longer aliases by ``chaining''; that is, make the last name in |
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| 82 | the alias be a dummy name which is a continuation alias. |
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| 83 | .Sh HISTORY |
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| 84 | The |
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| 85 | .Nm |
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| 86 | file format appeared in |
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| 87 | .Bx 4.0 . |
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