ALIASES(1M) UNIX 5.0 (October 25, 1988) ALIASES(1M)
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 can not 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
information is placed into a binary format in the files
/usr/lib/aliases.dir and /usr/lib/aliases.pag using the
program newaliases(1). A newaliases command should be
executed each time the aliases file is changed for the
change to take effect.
SEE ALSO
dbm(3X), sendmail(1M)
SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide.
SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router.
BUGS
Because of restrictions in dbm(3X) 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 continuation
alias.
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