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this is masqmail-0.2.21 from oliver kurth
| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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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">
4 <manpage name="masqmail.aliases" section="5" desc="masqmail alias file format">
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>
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>
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>
20 <p>A leading '\' indicates that this address shall not be further
21 expanded.</p>
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>
29 <p>Loops will be detected, the offending address will be ignored.</p>
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>
36 <p>There is no need to restart masqmail or run any command when the
37 alias file has been changed.</p>
38 </section>
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>
48 <section name = "Bugs">
49 <p>You should report them to the mailing list.</p>
50 </section>
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>
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>
63 </manpage>