mailalias(1)                                                   mailalias(1)


   NAME
         mailalias - translate mail alias names

   SYNOPSIS
         mailalias [ -s ] [ -v ] name ...

   DESCRIPTION
         mailalias is called by mail.  It places on the standard output a list
         of mail addresses corresponding to name.  The mail addresses are
         found by performing the following steps:

         1.  Look for the file /var/mail/name.  If found, print name and exit.

         2.  Look for a match in the user's local alias file $HOME/lib/names.
             If a line is found beginning with the word name, print the rest
             of the line on standard output and exit.

         3.  Look for a match in the system-wide alias files, which are listed
             in the master path file /etc/mail/namefiles.  If a line is found
             beginning with the word name, print the rest of the line on
             standard output and exit.

         If an alias file is a directory name dir, then search the file
         dir/name.  By default, the file /etc/mail/namefiles lists the
         directory /etc/mail/lists and the file /etc/mail/names.

         4.  Otherwise print name and exit.

         The alias files may contain comments (lines beginning with #) and
         information lines of the form:

               name list-of-addresses

         Tokens on these lines are separated by white-space.  Lines may be
         continued by placing a backslash (\) at the end of the line.

         If the -s option is not specified and more than one name is being
         translated, each line of output will be prefixed with the name being
         translated.

         The -v option causes debugging information to be written to standard
         output.

   FILES
         $HOME/lib/names               private aliases
         /etc/mail/namefiles           list of files to search
         /etc/mail/names               standard file to search

   SEE ALSO
         uucp(1), mail(1).
         smtp(1M), smtpd(1M), smtpqer(1M), smtpsched(1M), tosmtp(1M) in the


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