NAME

aliasmail −  expand system wide mail aliases

SYNOPSIS

­upas/aliasmail ­arg ... 

DESCRIPTION

­Aliasmail expands mail aliases, its arguments, according to alias files.  ­Aliasmail is normally invoked by a rule in in the upas rewrite file, rewrite(6).

If a line of an alias file begins with #include, the line is replaced by the contents of the file whose name follows.  Other lines, beginning with ­# are ignored as comment. 

Otherwise, lines begin with a name.  The rest of a name line gives the expansion.  The expansion may contain multiple addresses and may be continued to another line by appending a backslash.  Items are separated by white space. 

The alias files are searched in the order they are listed, one per line, in /mail/lib/namefiles.  If the name is not found, the expansion is taken to be local!name.  Under the ­-f option, alias files listed in ­/mail/lib/fromfiles are consulted instead, and the domain part only of the expansion is printed. 

FILES

­/mail/lib/namefiles
names of system alias files

SOURCE

­/sys/src/cmd/upas/alias

SEE ALSO

faces(1), filter(1), mail(1), marshal(1), mlmgr(1), nedmail(1), qer(8), rewrite(6), send(8), smtp(8), upasfs(4)
 

Plan 9  —  June 15, 2003