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).