aliases(5) INTERACTIVE UNIX System aliases(5)
NAME
aliases - aliases file for sendmail
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/aliases
DESCRIPTION
This file describes user ID aliases used by
/usr/lib/sendmail. It is formatted as a series of lines of
the form
name: name_1, name2, name_3, ...
The name is the name to alias, and the name_n are the
aliases for that name. Lines beginning with white space are
continuation lines. Lines beginning with # are comments.
Aliasing occurs only on local names. Loops cannot occur,
since no message will be sent to any person more than once.
After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who
have a .forward file in their home directory have messages
forwarded to the list of users defined in that file.
This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing informa-
tion is placed into a binary format in the files
/usr/lib/aliases.dir and /usr/lib/aliases.pag using the pro-
gram newaliases(1). A newaliases command should be executed
each time the aliases file is changed in order for the
change to take effect.
SEE ALSO
newaliases(1), sendmail(8) in the INTERACTIVE UNIX System
User's/System Administrator's Reference Manual.
``Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide'' and ``Sendmail
- An Internetwork Mail Router'' in the INTERACTIVE UNIX
Operating System Guide.
BUGS
Because of restrictions in the dbm program, a single alias
cannot contain more than about 1000 bytes of information.
You can get longer aliases by ``chaining''; that is, make
the last name in the alias be a dummy name which is a con-
tinuation alias.
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