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-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Sendmail, Inc. and its suppliers.
-.\" All rights reserved.
-.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1997 Eric P. Allman. All rights reserved.
-.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993
-.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
-.\"
-.\" By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set
-.\" forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of
-.\" the sendmail distribution.
-.\"
-.\"
-.\" $Id: aliases.5,v 8.19 2004/07/12 05:39:21 ca Exp $
-.\"
-.TH ALIASES 5 "$Date: 2004/07/12 05:39:21 $"
-.SH NAME
-aliases
-\- aliases file for sendmail
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B aliases
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-This file describes user
-ID
-aliases used by
-sendmail.
-The file resides in
-/etc/mail
-and
-is formatted as a series of lines of the form
-.IP
-name: addr_1, addr_2, addr_3, . . .
-.PP
-The
-.I name
-is the name to alias, and the
-.I addr_n
-are the aliases for that name.
-.I addr_n
-can be another alias, a local username, a local filename,
-a command,
-an include file,
-or an external address.
-.TP
-.B Local Username
-username
-.IP
-The username must be available via getpwnam(3).
-.TP
-.B Local Filename
-/path/name
-.IP
-Messages are appended to the file specified by the full pathname
-(starting with a slash (/))
-.TP
-.B Command
-|command
-.IP
-A command starts with a pipe symbol (|),
-it receives messages via standard input.
-.TP
-.B Include File
-:include: /path/name
-.IP
-The aliases in pathname are added to the aliases for
-.I name.
-.TP
-.B E-Mail Address
-user@domain
-.IP
-An e-mail address in RFC 822 format.
-.PP
-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.
-.PP
-Aliasing occurs only on local names.
-Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once.
-.PP
-If an alias is found for
-.IR name ,
-sendmail then checks for an alias for
-.IR owner-name .
-If it is found and the result of the lookup expands to a single
-address, the envelope sender address of the message is rewritten to
-that address.
-If it is found and the result expands to more than one address, the
-envelope sender address is changed to
-.IR owner-name .
-.PP
-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.
-.PP
-This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is
-placed into a binary format in the file
-/etc/mail/aliases.db
-using the program
-newaliases(1).
-A
-newaliases
-command should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for the
-change to take effect.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-newaliases(1),
-dbm(3),
-dbopen(3),
-db_open(3),
-sendmail(8)
-.PP
-.I
-SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide.
-.PP
-.I
-SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router.
-.SH BUGS
-If you have compiled
-sendmail
-with DBM support instead of NEWDB,
-you may have encountered problems in
-dbm(3)
-restricting a single alias to 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.
-.SH HISTORY
-The
-.B aliases
-file format appeared in
-4.0BSD.
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