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| date | Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:05:23 +0200 |
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| 1 <?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?> | |
| 2 <!DOCTYPE spec SYSTEM "man.dtd"> | |
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| 4 <manpage name="masqmail.aliases" section="5" desc="masqmail alias file format"> | |
| 5 | |
| 6 <description> | |
| 7 <p>This man page describes the format of the masqmail alias file. Its usual location is <file>/etc/aliases</file>.</p> | |
| 8 </description> | |
| 9 | |
| 10 <section name="File Format"> | |
| 11 <p>The alias file consists of lines of the form:</p> | |
| 12 <pre> | |
| 13 local_part: item1, item2, ... | |
| 14 </pre> | |
| 15 | |
| 16 <p>Items can be surrounded by quotes '"'. If within the quotes other | |
| 17 quotes are needed for an address they can be escaped with a leading | |
| 18 backslash '\'.</p> | |
| 19 | |
| 20 <p>A leading '\' indicates that this address shall not be further | |
| 21 expanded.</p> | |
| 22 | |
| 23 <p>A leading pipe symbol '|' indicates that the item shall be treated | |
| 24 as a pipe command. The content of the message will then be sent to the | |
| 25 standard input of a command. The command will run under the user id | |
| 26 and group id masqmail is running as. If quotes are needed, the pipe | |
| 27 symbol must appear <i>within</i> the quotes.</p> | |
| 28 | |
| 29 <p>Loops will be detected, the offending address will be ignored.</p> | |
| 30 | |
| 31 <p>Aliases will be expanded at <i>delivery</i> time. This means that | |
| 32 if there is a message still in the queue and you change any alias | |
| 33 which matches one of the recipient addresses, the change will have | |
| 34 effect next time a delivery is attemped.</p> | |
| 35 | |
| 36 <p>There is no need to restart masqmail or run any command when the | |
| 37 alias file has been changed.</p> | |
| 38 </section> | |
| 39 | |
| 40 <section name = "Author"> | |
| 41 <p>masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth | |
| 42 <oku@masqmail.cx></p><p>You will find the newest version of | |
| 43 masqmail at <url href="http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/"/> or search for it | |
| 44 in freshmeat (<url href="http://www.freshmeat.net"/>). There is also a mailing list, | |
| 45 you will find information about it at masqmails main site.</p> | |
| 46 </section> | |
| 47 | |
| 48 <section name = "Bugs"> | |
| 49 <p>You should report them to the mailing list.</p> | |
| 50 </section> | |
| 51 | |
| 52 <section name = "See also"> | |
| 53 <p> | |
| 54 <manref name="masqmail.conf" section="5" href="masqmail.conf.5.html"/>, <manref name="masqmail" section="8" href="masqmail.8.html"/>, | |
| 55 </p> | |
| 56 </section> | |
| 57 | |
| 58 <section name = "Comments"> | |
| 59 <p>This man page was written using <manref name="xml2man" section="1" | |
| 60 href="http://masqmail.cx/xml2man/"/> by the same author.</p> | |
| 61 </section> | |
| 62 | |
| 63 </manpage> |