aliases(SFF)
aliases --
aliases file for sendmail
Format
name: addr_1, addr_2, addr_3, ...
Description
This file describes user ID aliases used by
/usr/lib/sendmail.
It is formatted as a series of lines of the form:
name: addr_1, addr_2, addr_3, ...
name is an alias that represents the list of addr_n.
addr_n can be another alias, a local username, a local filename,
a command, an include file, or an external address.
username-
must be available via
getpwnam(S).
/path/name-
messages are appended to the file specified by the full pathname
(starting with a slash (/)).
|command-
starting with a pipe symbol (|),
it receives messages via standard input.
:include: /path/name-
aliases in pathname are added to the aliases for name.
user@domain-
an address in RFC 822 format.
Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines.
Another way to continue lines is by placing a backslash
directly before a newline.
Lines beginning with ``#'' are comments.
When sendmail receives a message addressed to name, it
expands name into the list of addr_n and sends the
message to each addr_n in the list.
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 file
/usr/lib/mail/aliases.db using the program
newaliases(ADMN).
The
newaliases(ADMN)
command should be executed each time the
/usr/lib/mail/aliases file is changed for the
change to take effect.
Files
/usr/lib/mail/aliases
See also
newaliases(ADMN),
sendmail(ADMN)
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