could some explain to /etc/aliases

[Adam Lanier]

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 15:13, technical wrote:
> what is being forwared to what? what are rules?
> 
> mailer-daemon:  postmaster
> postmaster:     root

Basically, an entry on the left hand side gets replaced by the entry (or
entries) on the right hand side.

In the example above, a message addressed to 'mailer-daemon' gets
replaced by 'postmaster' which, in turn, gets replaced by 'root'.

man aliases for more details.
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