aliases file for sendmail
/etc/aliases
The aliases file describes user ID aliases used by the sendmail utility. The file is formatted as a series of lines of the form:
name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . .
The name is the name to alias; name_n are the aliases for that name. Lines beginning with white space are continuation lines. Lines beginning with a pound sign (#) are comments.
Aliasing occurs only on local names. Loops cannot 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.
Note that this is only the raw data file - the actual aliasing information is placed into a binary format in the file /etc/aliases.db using the newaliases utility.
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A newaliases command must be executed each time the aliases file is changed in order for the change to take effect. |