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    NAME

    aliases, addresses, forward - addresses and aliases for sendmail
     
    

    SYNOPSIS

    /etc/mail/aliases
    

    /etc/mail/aliases.db
    

    /etc/mail/aliases.dir
    

    /etc/mail/aliases.pag
    

    ~/.forward
    

     

    DESCRIPTION

    These files contain mail addresses or aliases, recognized by sendmail(1M) for the local host:

    /etc/passwd

    Mail addresses (usernames) of local users.

    /etc/mail/aliases

    Aliases for the local host, in ASCII format. Root can edit this file to add, update, or delete local mail aliases.

    /etc/mail/aliases.{dir , pag}

    The aliasing information from /etc/mail/aliases, in binary ndbm(3C) format for use by sendmail(1M). The program newaliases(1M) maintains these files.

    /etc/mail/aliases.db


     The aliasing information from /etc/mail/aliases, in binary, Berkeley DataBase format for use by sendmail(1M). The program maintains these files.

    Depending on the configuration of the AliasFile option in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, either the single file aliases.db or the pair of files aliases.{dir, pag} is generated by newaliases(1M). As shipped with Solaris, sendmail(1M) supports both formats. If neither is specified, the Berkeley DataBase format which generates the single .db file is used.

    ~/.forward

    Addresses to which a user's mail is forwarded (see Automatic Forwarding).

    In addition, the NIS name services aliases map mail.aliases, and the NIS+ mail_aliases table, both contain addresses and aliases available for use across the network.  

    Addresses

    As distributed, sendmail(1M) supports the following types of addresses:  

    Local Usernames

    username
    

    Each local username is listed in the local host's /etc/passwd file.  

    Local Filenames

    pathname
    

    Messages addressed to the absolute pathname of a file are appended to that file.  

    Commands

    |command
    

    If the first character of the address is a vertical bar (|), sendmail(1M) pipes the message to the standard input of the command the bar precedes.  

    Internet-standard Addresses

    username@domain
    

    If domain does not contain any `.' (dots), then it is interpreted as the name of a host in the current domain. Otherwise, the message is passed to a mailhost that determines how to get to the specified domain. Domains are divided into subdomains separated by dots, with the top-level domain on the right.

    For example, the full address of John Smith could be:

    [email protected]
    

    if he uses the machine named jsmachine at Podunk University.  

    uucp Addresses

    ... [host!] host!username
    

    These are sometimes mistakenly referred to as ``Usenet'' addresses. uucp(1C) provides links to numerous sites throughout the world for the remote copying of files.

    Other site-specific forms of addressing can be added by customizing the sendmail.cf configuration file. See sendmail(1M) for details. Standard addresses are recommended.  

    Aliases

     

    Local Aliases

    /etc/mail/aliases is formatted as a series of lines of the form

    aliasname:address[, address]
    

    aliasname is the name of the alias or alias group, and address is the address of a recipient in the group. Aliases can be nested. That is, an address can be the name of another alias group. Because of the way sendmail(1M) performs mapping from upper-case to lower-case, an address that is the name of another alias group must not contain any upper-case letters.

    Lines beginning with white space are treated as continuation lines for the preceding alias. Lines beginning with # are comments.  

    Special Aliases

    An alias of the form:

    owner-aliasname : address
    

    sendmail directs error-messages resulting from mail to aliasname to address, instead of back to the person who sent the message. sendmail rewrites the SMTP envelope sender to match this, so owner-aliasname should always point to alias-request, and alias-request should point to the owner's actual address:

    owner-aliasname:      aliasname-request
    aliasname-request     address
    

    An alias of the form:

    aliasname: :include:pathname
    

    with colons as shown, adds the recipients listed in the file pathname to the aliasname alias. This allows a private list to be maintained separately from the aliases file.  

    NIS and NIS+ Domain Aliases

    The aliases file on the master NIS server is used for the mail.aliases NIS map, which can be made available to every NIS client. The mail_aliases table serves the same purpose on a NIS+ server. Thus, the /etc/mail/aliases* files on the various hosts in a network will one day be obsolete. Domain-wide aliases should ultimately be resolved into usernames on specific hosts. For example, if the following were in the domain-wide alias file:

    jsmith:js@jsmachine
    

    then any NIS or NIS+ client could just mail to jsmith and not have to remember the machine and username for John Smith.

    If a NIS or NIS+ alias does not resolve to an address with a specific host, then the name of the NIS or NIS+ domain is used. There should be an alias of the domain name for a host in this case.

    For example, the alias:

    jsmith:root
    

    sends mail on a NIS or NIS+ client to root@podunk-u if the name of the NIS or NIS+ domain is podunk-u.  

    Automatic Forwarding

    When an alias (or address) is resolved to the name of a user on the local host, sendmail(1M) checks for a ~/.forward file, owned by the intended recipient, in that user's home directory, and with universal read access. This file can contain one or more addresses or aliases as described above, each of which is sent a copy of the user's mail.

    Care must be taken to avoid creating addressing loops in the ~/.forward file. When forwarding mail between machines, be sure that the destination machine does not return the mail to the sender through the operation of any NIS aliases. Otherwise, copies of the message may "bounce." Usually, the solution is to change the NIS alias to direct mail to the proper destination.

    A backslash before a username inhibits further aliasing. For instance, to invoke the vacation program, user js creates a ~/.forward file that contains the line:

    \js, "|/usr/ucb/vacation js"
    

    so that one copy of the message is sent to the user, and another is piped into the vacation program.

    The ~/.forward file can be used to specify special "per user" extensions by creating a .forward+extension file in the home directory. For example, with an address like jsmith+jerry@jsmachine, the sendmail(1M) utility recognizes everything before the "+" as the actual username (jsmith) and everything after it, up to the "@" symbol, as the extension (jerry) which is passed to the mail delivery agent for local use.

    The default value of the ForwardPath processing option in sendmail(1M) is:

    O ForwardPath=$z/.forward.$w+$h:$z/.forward+$h:$z/.forward.$w:$z \
    /.forward
    

    where $z is the macro for the user's home directory, $w is the macro for the local machine name and $h is the extension. For example, for mail using the address, jsmith+jerry@jsmachine, the sendmail(1M) utility checks each of the four following file names, in the order given, to see if it exists and if it has "safe" permissions, that is, that neither the file nor any of its parent directories are group- or world-writable:

    ~jsmith/.forward.jsmachine+jerry
    ~jsmith/.forward+jerry
    ~jsmith/.forward.jsmachine
    ~jsmith/.forward
    

    The first file that meets the conditions is used to forward the mail, that is, all the entries in that file receive a copy of the mail. The search is then stopped.  

    FILES

    /etc/passwd

    Password file

    /etc/nsswitch.conf

    Name service switch configuration file

    /etc/mail/aliases

    Mail aliases file (ascii)

    /etc/mail/aliases.db

    Database of mail aliases (binary)

    /etc/mail/aliases.dir

    Database of mail aliases (binary)

    /etc/mail/aliases.pag

    Database of mail aliases (binary)

    /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

    sendmail configuration file

    ~/.forward

    Forwarding information file

     

    ATTRIBUTES

    See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

    ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE

    AvailabilitySUNWsndmr

     

    SEE ALSO

    passwd(1), uucp(1C), vacation(1), newaliases(1M), sendmail(1M), ndbm(3C), getusershell(3C), passwd(4), shells(4), attributes(5)  

    NOTES

    Because of restrictions in ndbm(3C), a single alias cannot contain more than about 1000 characters (if this format is used). The Berkeley DataBase format does not have any such restriction. Nested aliases can be used to circumvent this limit.

    For aliases which result in piping to a program or concatenating a file, the shell of the controlling user must be allowed. Which shells are and are not allowed are determined by getusershell(3C).


     

    Index

    NAME
    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Addresses
    Local Usernames
    Local Filenames
    Commands
    Internet-standard Addresses
    uucp Addresses
    Aliases
    Local Aliases
    Special Aliases
    NIS and NIS+ Domain Aliases
    Automatic Forwarding
    FILES
    ATTRIBUTES
    SEE ALSO
    NOTES


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