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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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