mailalias(1)                     DG/UX R4.11                    mailalias(1)


NAME
       mailalias - translate mail alias names

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

DESCRIPTION
       mailalias is called by mail as a surrogate command if there is an
       entry for mailalias in the mailsurr file.  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), mailsurr(4M),
       smtp(1M), smtpd(1M), smtpqer(1M), smtpsched(1M), tosmtp(1M).


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