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18 .Nd aliases file for sendmail
22 This file describes user
25 .Pa /usr/sbin/sendmail .
29 is formatted as a series of lines of the form
30 .Bd -filled -offset indent
31 name: name_1, name_2, name_3, . . .
36 is the name to alias, and the
38 are the aliases for that name.
39 Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines.
44 Aliasing occurs only on local names.
45 Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once.
47 After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a
49 file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the
50 list of users defined in that file.
52 This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is
53 placed into a binary format in the file
59 command should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for the
60 change to take effect.
67 .%T "SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide"
70 .%T "SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router"
75 with DBM support instead of NEWDB,
76 you may have encountered problems in
78 restricting a single alias to about 1000 bytes of information.
79 You can get longer aliases by ``chaining''; that is, make the last name in
80 the alias be a dummy name which is a continuation alias.
84 file format appeared in