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From: lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Forwarding Mail to a Group of Users
Message-ID: <1314@radius.com>
Date: 30 Aug 90 15:37:59 GMT
References: <156@vlink01.UUCP> <12855@netcom.UUCP> <1990Aug30.000954.8114@nshore.uucp>
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>| In article <156@vlink01.UUCP> steve@vlink01.UUCP (8780 Vlink) writes:
>| 
>| >I would like to make up "an alias" that would forward to several
>| >people as a "forwarding alias".
>| 
>| Thanks.  Please post.  He's not the only one that wants to know.
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In addition, if you're using sendmail, you can type "man aliases" to see
how aliases work for sendmail.  I use the sendmail aliases file to make
addresses like "qajobs@radius.com" and "rds@radius.com" which can point to
a real person here, but if the person should change, I can just change the
alias file withouth having to change the general address.

Here's the info in a nutshell:

     Aliases can be listed in the file: /etc/sendmail/aliases

     It is formatted as a series of lines of the form
          name: name_1, name2, name_3, . . .
     The name is the name to alias, and the name_n are the
     aliases for that name.  Lines beginning with white space are
     continuation lines.  Lines beginning with `#' are comments.
...
     This is only the raw data file; the actual aliasing informa-
     tion is placed into a binary format in the files
     /etc/sendmail/aliases.dir and /etc/sendmail/aliases.pag
     using the program newaliases(1).  A newaliases command
     should be executed each time the aliases file is changed for
     the change to take effect.
...

--Steve
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