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                      5: .\"    @(#)aliases.5   6.1 (Berkeley) 5/15/85
                      6: .\"
                      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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