ALIASES(4-SysV) RISC/os Reference Manual ALIASES(4-SysV)
NAME
aliases - aliases file for sendmail
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/aliases
DESCRIPTION
This file describes user id aliases used by
/usr/lib/sendmail. It is formatted as a series of lines of
the form
name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . .
The name is the name to alias, and the name_n are the
aliases for that name. Lines beginning with white space are
continuation lines. Lines beginning with `#' are comments.
Aliasing occurs only on local names. Loops can not occur,
since no message will be sent to any person more than once.
Aliasing can be prevented by escaping the first character
with a backslash (\).
After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who
have a ``.forward'' file in their home directory have mes-
sages forwarded to the list of users defined in that file
(see forward(4) for details).
This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing informa-
tion is placed into a binary format in the files
/usr/lib/aliases.dir and /usr/lib/aliases.pag using the pro-
gram newaliases(1). A newaliases command should be executed
each time the aliases file is changed for the change to take
effect.
SEE ALSO
newaliases(1), dbm(3X), forward(4), sendmail(1M)
SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide.
SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router.
ERRORS
Because of restrictions in dbm(3X) a single alias cannot
contain more than about 1000 bytes of information. You can
get longer aliases by ``chaining''; that is, make the last
name in the alias be a dummy name which is a continuation
alias.
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