ALIASMAIL(8)ALIASMAIL(8)

NAME

aliasmail – expand system wide mail aliases

SYNOPSIS

upas/aliasmail arg ...

DESCRIPTION

Aliasmail expands mail aliases, its arguments, according to alias files. Aliasmail is normally invoked by a rule in the upas rewrite file, rewrite(6).

If a line of an alias file begins with #include, the line is replaced by the contents of the file whose name follows. Other lines, beginning with # are ignored as comment.

Otherwise, lines begin with a name. The rest of a name line gives the expansion. The expansion may contain multiple addresses and may be continued to another line by appending a backslash. Items are separated by white space.

The alias files are searched in the order they are listed, one per line, in /mail/lib/namefiles. If the name is not found, the expansion is taken to be local!name. Under the -f option, alias files listed in /mail/lib/fromfiles are consulted instead, and the domain part only of the expansion is printed.

FILES

/mail/lib/namefiles

names of system alias files  

SOURCE

/sys/src/cmd/upas/alias

 

SEE ALSO

faces(1), filter(1), mail(1), marshal(1), mlmgr(1), nedmail(1), qer(8), rewrite(6), send(8), smtp(8), upasfs(4)