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        !             5: .\"    @(#)aliases.5   6.1 (Berkeley) 5/15/85
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        !             7: .TH ALIASES 5 "May 15, 1985"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: aliases \- aliases file for sendmail
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B /usr/lib/aliases
        !            13: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            14: This file describes user id aliases used by
        !            15: .I /usr/lib/sendmail.
        !            16: It is formatted as a series of lines of the form
        !            17: .in +0.5i
        !            18: name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . .
        !            19: .in
        !            20: The
        !            21: .I name
        !            22: is the name to alias, and the
        !            23: .I name_n
        !            24: are the aliases for that name.
        !            25: Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines.
        !            26: Lines beginning with `\|#\|' are comments.
        !            27: .PP
        !            28: Aliasing occurs only on local names.
        !            29: Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person more than once.
        !            30: .LP
        !            31: After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a
        !            32: ``.forward'' file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the
        !            33: list of users defined in that file.
        !            34: .PP
        !            35: This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is
        !            36: placed into a binary format in the files
        !            37: .I /usr/lib/aliases.dir
        !            38: and
        !            39: .I /usr/lib/aliases.pag
        !            40: using the program
        !            41: .IR newaliases (1).
        !            42: A
        !            43: .I newaliases
        !            44: command should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for the
        !            45: change to take effect.
        !            46: .SH "SEE  ALSO"
        !            47: newaliases(1), dbm(3X), sendmail(8)
        !            48: .br
        !            49: SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide.
        !            50: .br
        !            51: SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router.
        !            52: .SH BUGS
        !            53: Because of restrictions in
        !            54: .IR dbm (3X)
        !            55: a single alias cannot contain more than about 1000 bytes of information.
        !            56: You can get longer aliases by ``chaining''; that is, make the last name in
        !            57: the alias be a dummy name which is a continuation alias.

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