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- Aliases
- Introduction
-
- It is often required to redirect the mail of some user to other loca¡
- tion(s), other user(s) or even to programs.
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- For a given name which may or may not be a real user on this machine,
- you are allowed to enter:
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- It is possible to "pipe" all message to a program. The program
- can be a program, a shell script or any shell construction such
- as
-
- cat >>/tmp/mail.log
-
- This command for one will append all incoming mail for the alias in
- the file /tmp/mail.log.
-
- This is the way to install mail server packages.
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- You may want to defer the administration of a mailing list to
- someone without privilege. You are allowed to specify a text
- file holding email names. This file may belong to one user. A
- simple text editor is needed to manage it.
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- Each email address may be simply a user name, another alias name
- (alias may be nested), or a full email address.
-
- You can setup simple mailing lists this way.
-
- Those features are independent. This means you can setup a filter
- program and a list file and a bunch of email address for the same
- alias name.
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- It is often required to talk to someone in an organization without
- knowing his real name. We only want to talk to someone in charge of a
- service for example.
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- The _I_n_t_e_r_n_e_t has defined may pseudo-users. Here is a list of the one
- you should define on your system (on the mail-host server)
-
- ╖ hostmaster
-
- In charge of your DNS.
-
- ╖ postmaster
-
- The is the address to use when you need information about someone
- (Exact email address) or you want to signal a problem.
-
- ╖ usenet
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- Used to signal problem about news on your system.
-
- ╖ webmaster
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- In charge of the your web site.
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- _L_i_n_u_x system have several administrative accounts which received mail.
- It is a pain to manually log as one of those user just to check if
- there is any mail. This is a good idea to redirect those account to a
- real user (you ?).
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- Here is a list of those accounts
-
- ╖ root
-
- ╖ uucp
-
- ╖ news
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- On small site, there is a single administrator for the complete
- network. Instead of setting all those aliases pointing to him, you may
- save some time and point all to the pseudo-user admin which is itself
- and alias pointing to the administrator.
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- This may save time.
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- Aliases are generally defined on the mail-host server of an
- organization. It is possible to setup aliases on any machine though.
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