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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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