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| 12.\" $Id: aliases.5,v 8.17 2000/12/14 23:09:46 gshapiro Exp $ | 12.\" $Id: aliases.5,v 8.19 2004/07/12 05:39:21 ca Exp $ |
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| 14.TH ALIASES 5 "$Date: 2000/12/14 23:09:46 $" | 14.TH ALIASES 5 "$Date: 2004/07/12 05:39:21 $" |
| 15.SH NAME 16aliases 17\- aliases file for sendmail 18.SH SYNOPSIS 19.B aliases 20.SH DESCRIPTION 21This file describes user 22ID --- 50 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 73directly before a newline. 74Lines beginning with 75# 76are comments. 77.PP 78Aliasing occurs only on local names. 79Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once. 80.PP | 15.SH NAME 16aliases 17\- aliases file for sendmail 18.SH SYNOPSIS 19.B aliases 20.SH DESCRIPTION 21This file describes user 22ID --- 50 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 73directly before a newline. 74Lines beginning with 75# 76are comments. 77.PP 78Aliasing occurs only on local names. 79Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once. 80.PP |
| 81If an alias is found for 82.IR name , 83sendmail then checks for an alias for 84.IR owner-name . 85If it is found and the result of the lookup expands to a single 86address, the envelope sender address of the message is rewritten to 87that address. 88If it is found and the result expands to more than one address, the 89envelope sender address is changed to 90.IR owner-name . 91.PP |
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| 81After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a 82``.forward'' 83file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the 84list of users defined in that file. 85.PP 86This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is 87placed into a binary format in the file 88/etc/mail/aliases.db --- 32 unchanged lines hidden --- | 92After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a 93``.forward'' 94file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the 95list of users defined in that file. 96.PP 97This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is 98placed into a binary format in the file 99/etc/mail/aliases.db --- 32 unchanged lines hidden --- |