NAME
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aliases
DESCRIPTION (aliases)
DESCRIPTION (.forward)
SEE ALSO
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## NAME

aliases - aliases file for ZMailer

.forward - user's .forward file for ZMailer

## SYNOPSIS

## aliases

## DESCRIPTION (aliases)

All lines beging with `#' are comments.

Lines begining with white space are extensions to previous line.

This file describes user ID aliases used by zmailer(1). The file resides in ZMailer's database directory, which usually has a symlink to this file from /etc. Content of the file is formatted as a series of lines of form:

`name: name2, name3, name4, ...`

Each "name:" label must be valid RFC822 header type object, and the colon must not have whitespace in between 'name', and itself.

The targets must be valid RFC822 address type objects; specifically following BSDSendmail type things do not work, and must be converted to RFC822 format:

| `bsdname: |/path/to/foo/faa, bsdname zmname: "|/path/to/foo/faa", "zmname" bothname: user@somewhere, another@elsewere`

## DESCRIPTION (.forward)

The .forward file contains addresses that users want their incoming email to be sent to. It may be some program (like procmail), or it may be another address. Some examples for user "user":

| `"user", "|/path/to/vacation"`

| `"user", another@address`

BSDSendmail lets those addresses be written without quotes, however it is against RFC822 rules.

## SEE ALSO

zmailer(1), sendmail(8)
RFC822

## HISTORY

The aliases file format appeared in 4.0BSD.

## AUTHOR

This software authored and copyright by:
Rayan Zachariassen <no address>,
and by Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>