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1 <?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?>
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2 <!DOCTYPE spec SYSTEM "man.dtd">
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3
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4 <manpage name="masqmail.aliases" section="5" desc="masqmail alias file format">
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5
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6 <description>
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7 <p>This man page describes the format of the masqmail alias file. Its usual location is <file>/etc/aliases</file>.</p>
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8 </description>
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9
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10 <section name="File Format">
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11 <p>The alias file consists of lines of the form:</p>
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12 <pre>
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13 local_part: item1, item2, ...
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14 </pre>
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15
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16 <p>Items can be surrounded by quotes '"'. If within the quotes other
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17 quotes are needed for an address they can be escaped with a leading
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18 backslash '\'.</p>
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19
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20 <p>A leading '\' indicates that this address shall not be further
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21 expanded.</p>
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22
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23 <p>A leading pipe symbol '|' indicates that the item shall be treated
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24 as a pipe command. The content of the message will then be sent to the
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25 standard input of a command. The command will run under the user id
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26 and group id masqmail is running as. If quotes are needed, the pipe
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27 symbol must appear <i>within</i> the quotes.</p>
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28
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29 <p>Loops will be detected, the offending address will be ignored.</p>
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30
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31 <p>Aliases will be expanded at <i>delivery</i> time. This means that
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32 if there is a message still in the queue and you change any alias
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33 which matches one of the recipient addresses, the change will have
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34 effect next time a delivery is attemped.</p>
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35
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36 <p>There is no need to restart masqmail or run any command when the
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37 alias file has been changed.</p>
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38 </section>
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39
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40 <section name = "Author">
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41 <p>masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth
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42 <oku@masqmail.cx></p><p>You will find the newest version of
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43 masqmail at <url href="http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/"/> or search for it
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44 in freshmeat (<url href="http://www.freshmeat.net"/>). There is also a mailing list,
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45 you will find information about it at masqmails main site.</p>
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46 </section>
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47
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48 <section name = "Bugs">
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49 <p>You should report them to the mailing list.</p>
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50 </section>
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51
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52 <section name = "See also">
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53 <p>
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54 <manref name="masqmail.conf" section="5" href="masqmail.conf.5.html"/>, <manref name="masqmail" section="8" href="masqmail.8.html"/>,
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55 </p>
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56 </section>
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57
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58 <section name = "Comments">
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59 <p>This man page was written using <manref name="xml2man" section="1"
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60 href="http://masqmail.cx/xml2man/"/> by the same author.</p>
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61 </section>
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62
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63 </manpage>
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