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NAME
UULIB:Aliases
DESCRIPTION
UULIB:Aliases is a text file containing mail aliases. There
is no need to run newaliases after modifying this file (there
is no newaliases program). This file is scanned by sendmail
for each item of incomming and outgoing email.
Each line in UULIB:Aliases may be either blank, have a '#'
as the first character to indicate a comment, or begin an
alias. An alias consists of a name, colon, and list of
items. For example:
comiclovers: charlie, ben, lucy, james
Multi-line aliases may be specified by a comma at the end of
each line to be continued:
comiclovers: charlie, ben,
lucy, james
Note that the last line has no comma. Each item in an alias
may be:
(1) user a local user name
(2) \user forces a local user name if the name is aliased
(3) alias another alias
(4) path some path
(5) >file append the mail item to some file
(6) <file load a further list of destinations from a
file (one item per line)
(7) |command pipe mail item to a command with optional args
(8) "|command args"
For example, if I want incomming mail to be posted to my mail box
AND automatically appended to some archive file (and note here
that I must use '\' to prevent an alias loop):
dillon: \dillon, >uumail:archive
items may point to other aliases (dillon is already an alias):
comiclovers: dillon, fred
mail may be piped to a command, such as an automated vacation-response
program:
dillon: \dillon, >uumail:archive, |vacation
NEWSGROUPS
Newsgroups are difficult to implement with this Aliases
implementation because the sender's address is NOT removed
from the item list.
we hope to implement news propogation via a separate file and
the rnews program. When this is done, an alias will usually
be required:
news: |rnews
FILES
uulib:Aliases
uucp:c/sendmail