NAME
aliases - aliases file for sendmail

SYNOPSIS
/etc/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.

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 /usr/lib/aliases.dir and
/usr/lib/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(3)*, sendmail(8)
"SENDMAIL Installation and Operation Guide" (see MachTen System &
Network Administration manual)
"SENDMAIL An Internetwork Mail Router" (see MachTen System &
Network Administration manual)

BUGS
Because of restrictions in dbm(3)* 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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* Not currently supported under MachTen