masqmail-0.2
annotate docs/xml/masqmail.aliases.5.xml @ 2:653aef34b225
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| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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| date | Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:26:36 +0200 |
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| meillo@0 | 1 <?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?> |
| meillo@0 | 2 <!DOCTYPE spec SYSTEM "man.dtd"> |
| meillo@0 | 3 |
| meillo@0 | 4 <manpage name="masqmail.aliases" section="5" desc="masqmail alias file format"> |
| meillo@0 | 5 |
| meillo@0 | 6 <description> |
| meillo@0 | 7 <p>This man page describes the format of the masqmail alias file. Its usual location is <file>/etc/aliases</file>.</p> |
| meillo@0 | 8 </description> |
| meillo@0 | 9 |
| meillo@0 | 10 <section name="File Format"> |
| meillo@0 | 11 <p>The alias file consists of lines of the form:</p> |
| meillo@0 | 12 <pre> |
| meillo@0 | 13 local_part: item1, item2, ... |
| meillo@0 | 14 </pre> |
| meillo@0 | 15 |
| meillo@0 | 16 <p>Items can be surrounded by quotes '"'. If within the quotes other |
| meillo@0 | 17 quotes are needed for an address they can be escaped with a leading |
| meillo@0 | 18 backslash '\'.</p> |
| meillo@0 | 19 |
| meillo@0 | 20 <p>A leading '\' indicates that this address shall not be further |
| meillo@0 | 21 expanded.</p> |
| meillo@0 | 22 |
| meillo@0 | 23 <p>A leading pipe symbol '|' indicates that the item shall be treated |
| meillo@0 | 24 as a pipe command. The content of the message will then be sent to the |
| meillo@0 | 25 standard input of a command. The command will run under the user id |
| meillo@0 | 26 and group id masqmail is running as. If quotes are needed, the pipe |
| meillo@0 | 27 symbol must appear <i>within</i> the quotes.</p> |
| meillo@0 | 28 |
| meillo@0 | 29 <p>Loops will be detected, the offending address will be ignored.</p> |
| meillo@0 | 30 |
| meillo@0 | 31 <p>Aliases will be expanded at <i>delivery</i> time. This means that |
| meillo@0 | 32 if there is a message still in the queue and you change any alias |
| meillo@0 | 33 which matches one of the recipient addresses, the change will have |
| meillo@0 | 34 effect next time a delivery is attemped.</p> |
| meillo@0 | 35 |
| meillo@0 | 36 <p>There is no need to restart masqmail or run any command when the |
| meillo@0 | 37 alias file has been changed.</p> |
| meillo@0 | 38 </section> |
| meillo@0 | 39 |
| meillo@0 | 40 <section name = "Author"> |
| meillo@0 | 41 <p>masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth |
| meillo@0 | 42 <oku@masqmail.cx></p><p>You will find the newest version of |
| meillo@0 | 43 masqmail at <url href="http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/"/> or search for it |
| meillo@0 | 44 in freshmeat (<url href="http://www.freshmeat.net"/>). There is also a mailing list, |
| meillo@0 | 45 you will find information about it at masqmails main site.</p> |
| meillo@0 | 46 </section> |
| meillo@0 | 47 |
| meillo@0 | 48 <section name = "Bugs"> |
| meillo@0 | 49 <p>You should report them to the mailing list.</p> |
| meillo@0 | 50 </section> |
| meillo@0 | 51 |
| meillo@0 | 52 <section name = "See also"> |
| meillo@0 | 53 <p> |
| meillo@0 | 54 <manref name="masqmail.conf" section="5" href="masqmail.conf.5.html"/>, <manref name="masqmail" section="8" href="masqmail.8.html"/>, |
| meillo@0 | 55 </p> |
| meillo@0 | 56 </section> |
| meillo@0 | 57 |
| meillo@0 | 58 <section name = "Comments"> |
| meillo@0 | 59 <p>This man page was written using <manref name="xml2man" section="1" |
| meillo@0 | 60 href="http://masqmail.cx/xml2man/"/> by the same author.</p> |
| meillo@0 | 61 </section> |
| meillo@0 | 62 |
| meillo@0 | 63 </manpage> |