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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-26 16:38:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-26 16:38:00 -0400 |
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diff --git a/static/unix-v10/man5/aliases.5 b/static/unix-v10/man5/aliases.5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ac511348 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/unix-v10/man5/aliases.5 @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +.TH ALIASES 5 +.UC 4 +.SH NAME +aliases \- aliases file for delivermail +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B /usr/lib/aliases +.SH DESCRIPTION +This file describes user id aliases +that will be used +by +.I /etc/delivermail. +It is formatted as a series of lines +of the form +.in +0.5i +name:addr1,addr2,...addrn +.in +The +.I name +is the name to alias, +and the +.I addri +are the addresses to send the message to. +Lines beginning with white space +are continuation lines. +Lines beginning with `\|#\|' +are comments. +.PP +Aliasing occurs only on local names. +Loops can not occur, +since no message will be sent to any person +more than once. +.PP +This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing information is +placed into a binary format in the files +/usr/lib/aliases.dir +and +/usr/lib/aliases.pag +using the program +.IR newaliases (5). +A +.I newaliases +command should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for the +change to take effect. +.SH SEE\ ALSO +newaliases(1), dbm(3), delivermail(8) +.SH BUGS +Because of restrictions in +.IR dbm (3) +a single alias cannot contain more than about 1000 bytes of information. +You can get longer aliases by ``chaining''; i.e. make the last name in +the alias by a dummy name which is a continuation alias. |
