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meillo@56: <tr><td><h1>masqmail.aliases</h1>
meillo@56: <h2>masqmail alias file format</h2>
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meillo@56: <h2>Description</h2>
meillo@56: 
meillo@56: <p>This man page describes the format of the masqmail alias file. Its usual location is <em>/etc/aliases</em>.</p>
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meillo@56: <h2>File Format</h2>
meillo@56: 
meillo@56: <p>The alias file consists of lines of the form:</p>
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meillo@56: local_part: item1, item2, ...
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meillo@56: <p>Items can be surrounded by quotes '"'. If within the quotes other
meillo@56: quotes are needed for an address they can be escaped with a leading
meillo@56: backslash '\'.</p>
meillo@56: 
meillo@56: <p>A leading '\' indicates that this address shall not be further
meillo@56: expanded.</p>
meillo@56: 
meillo@56: <p>A leading pipe symbol '|' indicates that the item shall be treated
meillo@56: as a pipe command. The content of the message will then be sent to the
meillo@56: standard input of a command. The command will run under the user id
meillo@56: and group id masqmail is running as. If quotes are needed, the pipe
meillo@56: symbol must appear within the quotes.</p>
meillo@56: 
meillo@56: <p>Loops will be detected, the offending address will be ignored.</p>
meillo@56: 
meillo@56: <p>Aliases will be expanded at delivery time. This means that
meillo@56: if there is a message still in the queue and you change any alias
meillo@56: which matches one of the recipient addresses, the change will have
meillo@56: effect next time a delivery is attemped.</p>
meillo@56: 
meillo@56: <p>There is no need to restart masqmail or run any command when the
meillo@56: alias file has been changed.</p>
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meillo@56: <h2>Author</h2>
meillo@56: 
meillo@56: <p>masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth
meillo@56: <oku@masqmail.cx></p><p>You will find the newest version of
meillo@56: masqmail at <a href = "http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/">http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/</a> or search for it
meillo@56: in freshmeat (<a href = "http://www.freshmeat.net">http://www.freshmeat.net</a>). There is also a mailing list,
meillo@56: you will find information about it at masqmails main site.</p>
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meillo@56: <h2>Bugs</h2>
meillo@56: 
meillo@56: <p>You should report them to the mailing list.</p>
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meillo@56: <h2>See also</h2>
meillo@56: 
meillo@56: <p>
meillo@56: <a href="masqmail.conf.5.html">masqmail.conf</a>, <a href="masqmail.8.html">masqmail</a>, 
meillo@56: </p>
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meillo@56: <h2>Comments</h2>
meillo@56: 
meillo@56: <p>This man page was written using <a href="http://masqmail.cx/xml2man/">xml2man</a> by the same author.</p>
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