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ALIASES(5) BSD Programmer's Manual ALIASES(5)
NNAAMMEE
aalliiaasseess - aliases file for sendmail
SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
aalliiaasseess
DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
This file describes user ID aliases used by _/_u_s_r_/_s_b_i_n_/_s_e_n_d_m_a_i_l. The file
resides in _/_e_t_c and is formatted as a series of lines of the form
name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . .
The _n_a_m_e is the name to alias, and the _n_a_m_e___n are the aliases for that
name. Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines. Lines
beginning with `#' are comments.
Aliasing occurs only on local names. Loops can not occur, since no mes-
sage will be sent to any person more than once.
After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a
``_._f_o_r_w_a_r_d'' 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 _/_e_t_c_/_a_l_i_a_s_e_s_._d_b using the program
newaliases(1). A newaliases command should be executed each time the
aliases file is changed for the change to take effect.
SSEEEE AALLSSOO
newaliases(1), dbopen(3), dbm(3), sendmail(8)
_S_E_N_D_M_A_I_L _I_n_s_t_a_l_l_a_t_i_o_n _a_n_d _O_p_e_r_a_t_i_o_n _G_u_i_d_e.
_S_E_N_D_M_A_I_L _A_n _I_n_t_e_r_n_e_t_w_o_r_k _M_a_i_l _R_o_u_t_e_r.
BBUUGGSS
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 con-
tinuation alias.
HHIISSTTOORRYY
The aalliiaasseess file format appeared in 4.0BSD.
4th Berkeley Distribution December 11, 1993 1
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