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                      2: If you have accounts on several machines, you may find it convenient
                      3: to use the /usr/lib/aliases on all the machines except one to direct
                      4: your mail to a single account.
                      5: The
                      6: .b alternates
                      7: command is used to inform
                      8: .i Mail
                      9: that each of these other addresses is really
                     10: .i you .
                     11: .i Alternates
                     12: takes a list of user names and remembers that they are all actually you.
                     13: When you
                     14: .b reply
                     15: to messages that were sent to one of these alternate names,
                     16: .i Mail
                     17: will not bother to send a copy of the message to this other address (which
                     18: would simply be directed back to you by the alias mechanism).
                     19: If
                     20: .i alternates
                     21: is given no argument, it lists the current set of alternate names.
                     22: .b Alternates
                     23: is usually used in the .mailrc file.

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