


Delivery is not limited to regular files. See local(8) for details of delivery to file. file/name Mail is appended to /file/name. The value contains one or more of the following:Īddress Mail is forwarded to address, which is compatible with the RFC 822 standard. Problems than the originator of the undelivered mail. This is typically used to direct delivery errors to the maintainer of a mailing list, who is in a better position to deal with mailing list delivery In addition, when an alias exists for owner- name, delivery diagnostics are directed to that address, instead of to the originator of the Use double quotes when the name contains any special characters such as whitespace, '#', ':', or name is folded to lowercase, in order to make database lookups case insensitive. The name is a local address (no domain part). A line that starts with whitespace continues a logical line. A logical line starts with non-whitespace text.

Empty lines and whitespace-only lines are ignored, as are lines whose first non-whitespace character is a '#'.The format of the alias database input file is as follows: Same syntax as the right-hand side of aliases(5) entries. Users can control delivery of their own mail by setting up. The input and output file formats are expected to be compatible with Sendmail version 8, and are expected to be suitable for the use as NIS maps. Execute the command newaliases in order to rebuild the indexed file after The result, an indexed file inĭbm or db format, is used for fast lookup by the mail system. Normally, the aliases(5) table is specified as a text file that serves as input to the postalias(1) command. The redirections are processed by the Postfix The aliases(5) table provides a system-wide mechanism to redirect mail for local recipients.
