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1.1     ! root        1: .TH ALIASES 5
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: aliases \- aliases file for delivermail
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B /usr/lib/aliases
        !             7: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             8: This file describes user id aliases
        !             9: that will be used
        !            10: by
        !            11: .I /etc/delivermail.
        !            12: It is formatted as a series of lines
        !            13: of the form
        !            14: .in +0.5i
        !            15: name:addr1,addr2,...addrn
        !            16: .in
        !            17: The
        !            18: .I name
        !            19: is the name to alias,
        !            20: and the
        !            21: .I addri
        !            22: are the addresses to send the message to.
        !            23: Lines beginning with white space
        !            24: are continuation lines.
        !            25: Lines beginning with `\|#\|'
        !            26: are comments.
        !            27: .PP
        !            28: Aliasing occurs only on local names.
        !            29: Loops can not occur,
        !            30: since no message will be sent to any person
        !            31: more than once.
        !            32: .PP
        !            33: This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is
        !            34: placed into a binary format in the files
        !            35: /usr/lib/aliases.dir
        !            36: and
        !            37: /usr/lib/aliases.pag
        !            38: using the program
        !            39: .IR newaliases (5).
        !            40: A
        !            41: .I newaliases
        !            42: command should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for the
        !            43: change to take effect.
        !            44: .SH SEE\ ALSO
        !            45: newaliases(1), dbm(3), delivermail(8)
        !            46: .SH BUGS
        !            47: Because of restrictions in
        !            48: .IR dbm (3)
        !            49: a single alias cannot contain more than about 1000 bytes of information.
        !            50: You can get longer aliases by ``chaining''; i.e. make the last name in
        !            51: the alias by a dummy name which is a continuation alias.

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