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ALIASES(5)					       ALIASES(5)

NAME
       aliases - aliases file for sendmail

SYNOPSIS
       aliases

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

	      name: addr_1, addr_2, addr_3, . . .

       The  name  is  the  name	 to alias, and the addr_n are the
       aliases for that name.  addr_n can  be  another	alias,	a
       local  username,	 a  local filename, a command, an include
       file, or an external address.

       Local Username
	      username

	      The username must be available via getpwnam(3).

       Local Filename
	      /path/name

	      Messages are appended to the file specified by  the
	      full pathname (starting with a slash (/))

       Command
	      |command

	      A	 command  starts  with	a  pipe	 symbol	 (|),  it
	      receives messages via standard input.

       Include File
	      :include: /path/name

	      The aliases in pathname are added	 to  the  aliases
	      for name.

       E-Mail Address
	      user@domain

	      An e-mail 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.

       Aliasing occurs only on local names.  Loops can not occur,
       since  no  message  will	 be  sent to any person more than
       once.

		   $Date: 2000/12/14 23:08:15 $			1

ALIASES(5)					       ALIASES(5)

       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 infor-
       mation  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.

SEE ALSO
       newaliases(1), dbm(3), dbopen(3), db_open(3), sendmail(8)

       SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide.

       SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router.

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 informa-
       tion.  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.

HISTORY
       The aliases file format appeared in 4.0BSD.

		   $Date: 2000/12/14 23:08:15 $			2

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