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meillo@0 1 .TH masqmail.aliases 5 User Manuals
meillo@0 2 .SH NAME
meillo@0 3 masqmail.aliases \- masqmail alias file format
meillo@0 4 .SH DESCRIPTION
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meillo@0 6 This man page describes the format of the masqmail alias file. Its usual location is \fI/etc/aliases\f1.
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meillo@0 8 .SH FILE FORMAT
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meillo@0 10 The alias file consists of lines of the form:
meillo@0 11 local_part: item1, item2, ...
meillo@0 12 Items can be surrounded by quotes '"'. If within the quotes other quotes are needed for an address they can be escaped with a leading backslash '\'.
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meillo@0 14 A leading '\' indicates that this address shall not be further expanded.
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meillo@0 16 A leading pipe symbol '|' indicates that the item shall be treated as a pipe command. The content of the message will then be sent to the standard input of a command. The command will run under the user id and group id masqmail is running as. If quotes are needed, the pipe symbol must appear within the quotes.
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meillo@0 18 Loops will be detected, the offending address will be ignored.
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meillo@0 20 Aliases will be expanded at delivery time. This means that if there is a message still in the queue and you change any alias which matches one of the recipient addresses, the change will have effect next time a delivery is attemped.
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meillo@0 22 There is no need to restart masqmail or run any command when the alias file has been changed.
meillo@0 23
meillo@0 24 .SH AUTHOR
meillo@0 25
meillo@0 26 masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth <oku@masqmail.cx>
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meillo@0 28 You will find the newest version of masqmail at \fBhttp://masqmail.cx/masqmail/\f1 or search for it in freshmeat (\fBhttp://www.freshmeat.net\f1). There is also a mailing list, you will find information about it at masqmails main site.
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meillo@0 30 .SH BUGS
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meillo@0 32 You should report them to the mailing list.
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meillo@0 34 .SH SEE ALSO
meillo@0 35
meillo@0 36 \fBmasqmail.conf (5)\f1, \fBmasqmail (8)\f1,
meillo@0 37
meillo@0 38 .SH COMMENTS
meillo@0 39
meillo@0 40 This man page was written using \fBxml2man (1)\f1 by the same author.
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