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2 <tr><td><h1>masqmail.aliases</h1>
3 <h2>masqmail alias file format</h2>
4
5
6 <h2>Description</h2>
7
8 <p>This man page describes the format of the masqmail alias file. Its usual location is <em>/etc/aliases</em>.</p>
9
10
11
12 <h2>File Format</h2>
13
14 <p>The alias file consists of lines of the form:</p>
15
16 local_part: item1, item2, ...
17
18
19 <p>Items can be surrounded by quotes '"'. If within the quotes other
20 quotes are needed for an address they can be escaped with a leading
21 backslash '\'.</p>
22
23 <p>A leading '\' indicates that this address shall not be further
24 expanded.</p>
25
26 <p>A leading pipe symbol '|' indicates that the item shall be treated
27 as a pipe command. The content of the message will then be sent to the
28 standard input of a command. The command will run under the user id
29 and group id masqmail is running as. If quotes are needed, the pipe
30 symbol must appear within the quotes.</p>
31
32 <p>Loops will be detected, the offending address will be ignored.</p>
33
34 <p>Aliases will be expanded at delivery time. This means that
35 if there is a message still in the queue and you change any alias
36 which matches one of the recipient addresses, the change will have
37 effect next time a delivery is attemped.</p>
38
39 <p>There is no need to restart masqmail or run any command when the
40 alias file has been changed.</p>
41
42
43
44 <h2>Author</h2>
45
46 <p>masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth
47 <oku@masqmail.cx></p><p>You will find the newest version of
48 masqmail at <a href = "http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/">http://masqmail.cx/masqmail/</a> or search for it
49 in freshmeat (<a href = "http://www.freshmeat.net">http://www.freshmeat.net</a>). There is also a mailing list,
50 you will find information about it at masqmails main site.</p>
51
52
53
54 <h2>Bugs</h2>
55
56 <p>You should report them to the mailing list.</p>
57
58
59
60 <h2>See also</h2>
61
62 <p>
63 <a href="masqmail.conf.5.html">masqmail.conf</a>, <a href="masqmail.8.html">masqmail</a>,
64 </p>
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66
67
68 <h2>Comments</h2>
69
70 <p>This man page was written using <a href="http://masqmail.cx/xml2man/">xml2man</a> by the same author.</p>
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