December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
10h 4m
English
Aliases map names to address lists. The aliases are defined in the /etc/aliases file by the user administrator. The /etc/aliases file consists of a series of entries in the following format:
Alias: Name1, Name2, ... NameX
where Alias can be any alphanumeric string that you choose (not including special characters, such as @ or !). Name1 through NameX is a series of one or more recipient names. The /etc/aliases file must contain the following three aliases (a sample file is shown in Figure 15-5):

MAILER-DAEMON
postmaster
nobody
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