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        !            20: .TH ALIASES 5 "June 23, 1990"
        !            21: .UC 4
        !            22: .SH NAME
        !            23: aliases \- aliases file for sendmail
        !            24: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            25: .B /etc/aliases
        !            26: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            27: This file describes user id aliases used by
        !            28: .I /usr/sbin/sendmail.
        !            29: It is formatted as a series of lines of the form
        !            30: .in +0.5i
        !            31: name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . .
        !            32: .in
        !            33: The
        !            34: .I name
        !            35: is the name to alias, and the
        !            36: .I name_n
        !            37: are the aliases for that name.
        !            38: Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines.
        !            39: Lines beginning with `\|#\|' are comments.
        !            40: .PP
        !            41: Aliasing occurs only on local names.
        !            42: Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once.
        !            43: .LP
        !            44: After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a
        !            45: ``.forward'' file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the
        !            46: list of users defined in that file.
        !            47: .PP
        !            48: This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is
        !            49: placed into a binary format in the files
        !            50: .I /etc/aliases.dir
        !            51: and
        !            52: .I /etc/aliases.pag
        !            53: using the program
        !            54: .IR newaliases (1).
        !            55: A
        !            56: .I newaliases
        !            57: command should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for the
        !            58: change to take effect.
        !            59: .SH "SEE  ALSO"
        !            60: newaliases(1), dbm(3X), sendmail(8)
        !            61: .br
        !            62: SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide.
        !            63: .br
        !            64: SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router.
        !            65: .SH BUGS
        !            66: Because of restrictions in
        !            67: .IR dbm (3X)
        !            68: a single alias cannot contain more than about 1000 bytes of information.
        !            69: You can get longer aliases by ``chaining''; that is, make the last name in
        !            70: the alias be a dummy name which is a continuation alias.

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