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| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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| date | Sat, 29 May 2010 21:51:13 +0200 |
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| meillo@56 | 1 <body text="#000000" link="#0000ff" bgcolor="#ffffff"><center><table width="80%"> |
| meillo@56 | 2 <tr><td><h1>masqmail.aliases</h1> |
| meillo@56 | 3 <h2>masqmail alias file format</h2> |
| meillo@56 | 4 |
| meillo@56 | 5 |
| meillo@56 | 6 <h2>Description</h2> |
| meillo@56 | 7 |
| meillo@56 | 8 <p>This man page describes the format of the masqmail alias file. Its usual location is <em>/etc/aliases</em>.</p> |
| meillo@56 | 9 |
| meillo@56 | 10 |
| meillo@56 | 11 |
| meillo@56 | 12 <h2>File Format</h2> |
| meillo@56 | 13 |
| meillo@56 | 14 <p>The alias file consists of lines of the form:</p> |
| meillo@56 | 15 |
| meillo@56 | 16 local_part: item1, item2, ... |
| meillo@56 | 17 |
| meillo@56 | 18 |
| meillo@56 | 19 <p>Items can be surrounded by quotes '"'. If within the quotes other |
| meillo@56 | 20 quotes are needed for an address they can be escaped with a leading |
| meillo@56 | 21 backslash '\'.</p> |
| meillo@56 | 22 |
| meillo@56 | 23 <p>A leading '\' indicates that this address shall not be further |
| meillo@56 | 24 expanded.</p> |
| meillo@56 | 25 |
| meillo@56 | 26 <p>A leading pipe symbol '|' indicates that the item shall be treated |
| meillo@56 | 27 as a pipe command. The content of the message will then be sent to the |
| meillo@56 | 28 standard input of a command. The command will run under the user id |
| meillo@56 | 29 and group id masqmail is running as. If quotes are needed, the pipe |
| meillo@56 | 30 symbol must appear within the quotes.</p> |
| meillo@56 | 31 |
| meillo@56 | 32 <p>Loops will be detected, the offending address will be ignored.</p> |
| meillo@56 | 33 |
| meillo@56 | 34 <p>Aliases will be expanded at delivery time. This means that |
| meillo@56 | 35 if there is a message still in the queue and you change any alias |
| meillo@56 | 36 which matches one of the recipient addresses, the change will have |
| meillo@56 | 37 effect next time a delivery is attemped.</p> |
| meillo@56 | 38 |
| meillo@56 | 39 <p>There is no need to restart masqmail or run any command when the |
| meillo@56 | 40 alias file has been changed.</p> |
| meillo@56 | 41 |
| meillo@56 | 42 |
| meillo@56 | 43 |
| meillo@56 | 44 <h2>Author</h2> |
| meillo@56 | 45 |
| meillo@56 | 46 <p>masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth |
| meillo@56 | 47 <oku@masqmail.cx></p><p>You will find the newest version of |
| meillo@56 | 48 masqmail at <a href = "http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/">http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/</a> or search for it |
| meillo@56 | 49 in freshmeat (<a href = "http://www.freshmeat.net">http://www.freshmeat.net</a>). There is also a mailing list, |
| meillo@56 | 50 you will find information about it at masqmails main site.</p> |
| meillo@56 | 51 |
| meillo@56 | 52 |
| meillo@56 | 53 |
| meillo@56 | 54 <h2>Bugs</h2> |
| meillo@56 | 55 |
| meillo@56 | 56 <p>You should report them to the mailing list.</p> |
| meillo@56 | 57 |
| meillo@56 | 58 |
| meillo@56 | 59 |
| meillo@56 | 60 <h2>See also</h2> |
| meillo@56 | 61 |
| meillo@56 | 62 <p> |
| meillo@56 | 63 <a href="masqmail.conf.5.html">masqmail.conf</a>, <a href="masqmail.8.html">masqmail</a>, |
| meillo@56 | 64 </p> |
| meillo@56 | 65 |
| meillo@56 | 66 |
| meillo@56 | 67 |
| meillo@56 | 68 <h2>Comments</h2> |
| meillo@56 | 69 |
| meillo@56 | 70 <p>This man page was written using <a href="http://masqmail.cx/xml2man/">xml2man</a> by the same author.</p> |
| meillo@56 | 71 |
| meillo@56 | 72 |
| meillo@56 | 73 |
| meillo@56 | 74 </td></tr></table></center> |
| meillo@56 | 75 </body> |