mailalias(1)             USER COMMANDS               mailalias(1)



NAME
     mailalias - translate mail alias names

SYNOPSIS
     mailalias [ -s ] [ -v ] name ...

DESCRIPTION
     mailalias is called by mail.  It places on the standard out-
     put  a  list  of  mail addresses corresponding to name.  The
     mail addresses are found by performing the following steps:

     1.  Look for the file /var/mail/name.  If found, print  name
         and exit.

     2.  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.

     3.  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.

     4.  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





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mailalias(1)             USER COMMANDS               mailalias(1)



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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