mailalias(1)                     UNIX System V                     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 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.

      2.  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.

      3.  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 System
      Administrator's Reference Manual.






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