meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: <HTML> meillo@56: <HEAD> meillo@56: <TITLE>MasqMail - Manual meillo@56: </TITLE> meillo@56: </HEAD> meillo@56: <BODY TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ff" BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> meillo@56: meillo@56: <center> meillo@56: <table width="80%"> meillo@56: <tr><td> meillo@56: <table width="100%" bgcolor="#0000aa" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> meillo@56: <tr> meillo@56: <td> meillo@56: <a href="manual.html"> meillo@56: <img width="20" src = "../images/u_arrow.gif" alt = "manual"> meillo@56: </a> meillo@56: </td> meillo@56: <td align=center width="100%"><font size="6" color = "#ffffff">Alias Format</font></td> meillo@56: <td> meillo@56: <a href="./options.html"> meillo@56: <img width="20" src = "../images/l_arrow.gif" alt = "Options"> meillo@56: </a> meillo@56: </td> meillo@56: <td> meillo@56: <a href="./config.html"> meillo@56: <img width="20" src = "../images/r_arrow.gif" alt = "Configuration"> meillo@56: </a> meillo@56: </td> meillo@56: </tr> meillo@56: </table> meillo@56: meillo@56: meillo@56: <p>The alias file consists of lines of the form:</p> meillo@56: <pre> meillo@56: local_part: item1, item2, ... meillo@56: </pre> meillo@56: 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 <i>within</i> 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 <i>delivery</i> 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> meillo@56: </td></tr> meillo@56: meillo@56: <tr><td> meillo@56: <p> meillo@56: <hr> meillo@56: <address><a href = "mailto:kurth@innominate.de">Oliver Kurth</a></address> meillo@56: Last modified: Tue May 30 15:19:57 CEST 2000 meillo@56: <br> meillo@56: This page was created using <a href="http://www.freddyfrog.com/hacks/genpage/">Genpage</a> - Version: 1.0.6 meillo@56: </p> meillo@56: meillo@56: </table> meillo@56: </center> meillo@56: meillo@56: </BODY> meillo@56: </HEAD> meillo@56: