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 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. 

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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