ALIASES(5)              GENIX Programmer's Manual              ALIASES(5)



      NAME
           aliases - aliases file for delivermail

      SYNOPSIS
           /usr/lib/aliases

      DESCRIPTION
           This  file  describes  user  id  aliases  that  will  be   used   by
           /etc/delivermail. It is formatted as a series of lines of the form
                name:addr1,addr2,...addrn
           The name is the name to alias, and the addri are  the  addresses  to
           send the message to.  Lines beginning with white space are continua-
           tion 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.

           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(5).  A  newaliases
           command should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for
           the change to take effect.

      SEE ALSO
           newaliases(1), dbm(3), delivermail(8)

      BUGS
           Because of restrictions in dbm(3) a single alias cannot contain more
           than about 1000 bytes of information.  You can get longer aliases by
           ``chaining''; i.e. make the last name in the alias by a  dummy  name
           which is a continuation alias.
























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