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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
-
-
-