aliases(5) [bsd man page]

ALIASES(5)							File Formats Manual							ALIASES(5)

NAME

       aliases - aliases file for sendmail

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/aliases

DESCRIPTION

       This file describes user id aliases used by /usr/sbin/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.

       After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a ``.forward'' file in their home directory have  messages  forwarded	to
       the list of users defined in that file.

       This  is  only  the  raw  data  file;  the  actual  aliasing  information  is placed into a binary format in the files /etc/aliases.dir and
       /etc/aliases.pag using the program 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), sendmail(8)
       SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide.
       SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router.

BUGS

       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.

4th Berkeley Distribution					 October 22, 1996							ALIASES(5)

newaliases(1M)						  System Administration Commands					    newaliases(1M)

NAME

       newaliases - rebuild the data base for the mail aliases file

SYNOPSIS

       newaliases

DESCRIPTION

       newaliases rebuilds the random access data base for the mail aliases file /etc/mail/aliases.

       newaliases accepts all the flags that sendmail(1M) accepts. However, most of these flags have no effect, except for the -C option and three
       of the Processing Options that can be set from a configuration file with the -o option:

       -C /path/to/alt/config/file

	   Use alternate configuration file.

       -oAfile

	   Specify possible alias files.

       -oLn

	   Set the default log level to n. Defaults to 9.

       -on

	   Validate the RHS of aliases when rebuilding the aliases(4) database.

       newaliases runs in verbose mode (-v option) automatically.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1 Running the newaliases Command

       The following command runs newaliases on an alias file different from the /etc/mail/aliases default in sendmail(1M):

	  example% newaliases -oA/path/to/alternate/alias/file

EXIT STATUS

       newaliases returns an exit status describing what it did. The codes are defined in /usr/include/sysexits.h.

       EX_OK		 Successful completion on all addresses.

       EX_NOUSER	 User name not recognized.

       EX_UNAVAILABLE	 Catchall. Necessary resources were not available.

       EX_SYNTAX	 Syntax error in address.

       EX_SOFTWARE	 Internal software error, including bad arguments.

       EX_OSERR 	 Temporary operating system error, such as "cannot fork".

       EX_NOHOST	 Host name not recognized.

       EX_TEMPFAIL	 Message could not be sent immediately, but was queued.

FILES

       /etc/aliases		Symbolic link to /etc/mail/aliases

       /etc/mail/aliases.pag

       /etc/mail/aliases.dir	ndbm files maintained by newaliases

       /etc/mail/aliases.db	Berkeley DataBase file maintained by newaliases

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsndmu 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       sendmail(1M), aliases(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    14 Sep 2001 						    newaliases(1M)