NAME¶
masqmail.aliases - masqmail alias file format
DESCRIPTION¶
This man page describes the format of the masqmail alias file. Its usual
location is
/etc/aliases.
The alias file consists of lines of the form: local_part: item1, item2, ...
Items can be surrounded by double quotes `"'. If within the quotes other
quotes are needed for an address they can be escaped with a leading backslash
`\'.
A leading backslash `\' indicates that this address shall not be further
expanded.
A leading pipe symbol `|' indicates that the item shall be treated as a pipe
command. The content of the message will then be sent to the standard input of
a command. The command will run under the user id and group id masqmail is
running as. If quotes are needed, the pipe symbol must appear within the
quotes.
Loops will be detected, the offending address will be ignored.
Aliases will be expanded at delivery time. This means that if there is a message
still in the queue and you change any alias which matches one of the recipient
addresses, the change will have effect next time a delivery is attemped.
There is no need to restart masqmail or run any command when the alias file has
been changed.
AUTHOR¶
Masqmail was written by Oliver Kurth. It is now maintained by Markus Schnalke
<meillo@marmaro.de>.
You will find the newest version of masqmail at
http://marmaro.de/prog/masqmail/. There is also a mailing list, you
will find information about it at masqmail's main site.
BUGS¶
Please report bugs to the mailing list.
SEE ALSO¶
masqmail.conf(5),
masqmail(8),