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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: name1, name2, name3, . .

     The colon separates that which is aliased (name) from its
     aliases (name1,name2,name3,...). As shown above, comma-
     separated arguments can appear in the file.  Lines beginning
     with spaces or tabs are continuation lines.  Lines beginning
     with '#' are comments.

     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.

     Arguments take four forms: loginname, loginname@host-id,
     /filename, and :include: /filename. Loginname is the login
     name of the recipient on the local machine.
     Loginname@host-id is the login name and the network name of
     the recipient's home machine.  If the /filename form is
     used, any mail sent to the name being aliased is also
     appended to the named file.  If the file does not exist, it
     is created.  If :include: /filename is used, /filename is
     the only argument allowed.  Recursive definitions cause
     infinite recursion in sendmail. The name being aliased
     should never be the recipient of the file since it's a dummy
     name.  Input is taken from the specified file until it ends.
     Processing of the current file continues.

     This is an ASCII file used to modify the aliases database;
     the actual aliasing information is placed into a binary
     format in the files /usr/lib/aliases.dir and
     /usr/lib/aliases.pag using the command newaliases. These are
     dbm(3d) files.

     Newaliases is automatically run on the first attempt to send
     mail after /usr/lib/aliases is changed and then the change
     takes effect.  To execute a newaliases command, enter:

          ln /usr/lib/sendmail /etc/newaliases

     or





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          /usr/lib/sendmail -bi

     The person who maintains the list of aliases is known as the
     owner.  To establish an owner, enter:

          owner-xxxx: yyyy

     yyyy is the owner of the list and xxxx is the name of the
     list.  If an error occurs, the owner receives an error
     message.  If there is no owner and an error occurs, the
     person sending the mail receives an error message.

EXAMPLES
     An example of a simple alias is:

          root: joe,sam,jane@central

     Any mail addressed to root does not go to root, but rather
     to joe, sam, and jane.

     The recipient can also be a file, for example,

          bug-list: /usr/adm/bugsave

     Mail is written to the file.

     You can also read aliases in from a file, for example,

          sys-list: :include:/usr/adm/systemusers

     Lines in the file are similar to lines in /usr/lib/alias.
     Including aliases in a file is done, for example, when the
     system administrator owns the mail list of aliases, but the
     group list is owned by someone else.

     If an error occurs on sending mail to a specified list, only
     the owner of the list is notified of the error.  In the
     example below, eric is the owner and vax-advice is the name
     of the list.  Only eric receives the error message.

          owner-vax-advice: eric
          vax-advice: eric,jill,sam

     Aliasing occurs only on local names.  The following example
     is not valid.

          john@ucbvax: bill

     Duplicates cannot occur, since no messages are sent to any
     person more than once.  For example, given the aliases:





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          sys-issues: sam,robert
          sys-bugs: sys-issues,sam,fred

     "sam", "fred", and "robert" each receive one copy of mail
     for sys-bugs.

CAVEATS
     Because of restrictions in dbm(3d) 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.

SEE ALSO
     newaliases(1), dbm(3d), and sendmail(8mh).









































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