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masqmail.aliases

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masqmail alias file format

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Description

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This man page describes the format of the masqmail alias file. Its usual location is /etc/aliases.

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File Format

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The alias file consists of lines of the form:

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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 '\'.

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A leading '\' indicates that this address shall not be further meillo@56: expanded.

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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.

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Loops will be detected, the offending address will be ignored.

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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.

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There is no need to restart masqmail or run any command when the meillo@56: alias file has been changed.

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Author

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masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth meillo@56:

You will find the newest version of meillo@56: masqmail at http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/ or search for it meillo@56: in freshmeat (http://www.freshmeat.net). There is also a mailing list, meillo@56: you will find information about it at masqmails main site.

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Bugs

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You should report them to the mailing list.

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See also

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meillo@56: masqmail.conf, masqmail, meillo@56:

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Comments

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This man page was written using xml2man by the same author.

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