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diff --git a/contrib/sendmail/src/aliases.5 b/contrib/sendmail/src/aliases.5 deleted file mode 100644 index 32fb50c..0000000 --- a/contrib/sendmail/src/aliases.5 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,131 +0,0 @@ -.\" 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. |