meillo@42: .TH masqmail.aliases 5 2010-05-07 masqmail-0.2.22 "File Formats" meillo@34: meillo@0: .SH NAME meillo@0: masqmail.aliases \- masqmail alias file format meillo@34: meillo@34: meillo@0: .SH DESCRIPTION meillo@0: meillo@34: This man page describes the format of the masqmail alias file. meillo@34: Its usual location is \fI/etc/aliases\fR. meillo@34: meillo@0: meillo@0: .SH FILE FORMAT meillo@0: meillo@0: The alias file consists of lines of the form: meillo@0: local_part: item1, item2, ... meillo@34: Items can be surrounded by double quotes `"'. meillo@34: If within the quotes other quotes are needed for an address they can be meillo@34: escaped with a leading backslash `\\'. meillo@0: meillo@34: A leading backslash `\\' indicates that this address shall not be further expanded. meillo@0: meillo@34: A leading pipe symbol `|' indicates that the item shall be treated as a pipe command. meillo@34: The content of the message will then be sent to the standard input of a command. meillo@34: The command will run under the user id and group id masqmail is running as. meillo@34: If quotes are needed, the pipe symbol must appear within the quotes. meillo@0: meillo@0: Loops will be detected, the offending address will be ignored. meillo@0: meillo@34: Aliases will be expanded at delivery time. meillo@34: This means that if there is a message still in the queue and you change meillo@34: any alias which matches one of the recipient addresses, meillo@34: the change will have effect next time a delivery is attemped. meillo@0: meillo@0: There is no need to restart masqmail or run any command when the alias file has been changed. meillo@0: meillo@34: meillo@0: .SH AUTHOR meillo@0: meillo@34: Masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth. meillo@34: It is now maintained by Markus Schnalke . meillo@0: meillo@34: You will find the newest version of masqmail at \fBhttp://prog.marmaro.de/masqmail/\fR. meillo@26: There is also a mailing list, you will find information about it at masqmail's main site. meillo@0: meillo@34: meillo@0: .SH BUGS meillo@0: meillo@34: Please report bugs to the mailing list. meillo@34: meillo@0: meillo@0: .SH SEE ALSO meillo@0: meillo@34: \fBmasqmail.conf(5)\fR, \fBmasqmail(8)\fR,