meillo@380: .TH masqmail.aliases 5 2012-01-18 masqmail-0.3.4 "File Formats"
meillo@34: 
meillo@0: .SH NAME
meillo@0: masqmail.aliases \- masqmail alias file format
meillo@34: 
meillo@34: 
meillo@0: .SH DESCRIPTION
meillo@0: 
meillo@34: This man page describes the format of the masqmail alias file.
meillo@34: Its usual location is \fI/etc/aliases\fR.
meillo@34: 
meillo@0: 
meillo@0: .SH FILE FORMAT
meillo@0: 
meillo@0: The alias file consists of lines of the form:
meillo@0: local_part: item1, item2, ...
meillo@34: Items can be surrounded by double quotes `"'.
meillo@34: If within the quotes other quotes are needed for an address they can be
meillo@34: escaped with a leading backslash `\\'.
meillo@0: 
meillo@34: A leading backslash `\\' indicates that this address shall not be further expanded.
meillo@0: 
meillo@34: A leading pipe symbol `|' indicates that the item shall be treated as a pipe command.
meillo@313: The content of the message will then be sent to the standard input of the command.
meillo@34: The command will run under the user id and group id masqmail is running as.
meillo@34: If quotes are needed, the pipe symbol must appear within the quotes.
meillo@0: 
meillo@0: Loops will be detected, the offending address will be ignored.
meillo@0: 
meillo@34: Aliases will be expanded at delivery time.
meillo@34: This means that if there is a message still in the queue and you change
meillo@34: any alias which matches one of the recipient addresses,
meillo@34: the change will have effect next time a delivery is attemped.
meillo@0: 
meillo@0: There is no need to restart masqmail or run any command when the alias file has been changed.
meillo@0: 
meillo@34: 
meillo@308: .SH EXAMPLE
meillo@308: 
meillo@308: .nf
meillo@308: # postmaster is required by RFC 2821
meillo@308: postmaster: root
meillo@308: 
meillo@308: # forward abuse mail to another address
meillo@308: abuse: abuse@example.org
meillo@308: 
meillo@308: # copy root's mail also to meillo
meillo@308: root: \\root, meillo
meillo@308: 
meillo@308: # pass mail to a script
meillo@308: foo: |/usr/bin/foo
meillo@308: .fi
meillo@308: 
meillo@308: 
meillo@0: .SH AUTHOR
meillo@0: 
meillo@34: Masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth.
meillo@34: It is now maintained by Markus Schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>.
meillo@0: 
meillo@95: You will find the newest version of masqmail at \fBhttp://marmaro.de/prog/masqmail/\fR.
meillo@26: There is also a mailing list, you will find information about it at masqmail's main site.
meillo@0: 
meillo@34: 
meillo@0: .SH BUGS
meillo@0: 
meillo@34: Please report bugs to the mailing list.
meillo@34: 
meillo@0: 
meillo@0: .SH SEE ALSO
meillo@0: 
meillo@34: \fBmasqmail.conf(5)\fR, \fBmasqmail(8)\fR,