could some explain to /etc/aliases

James Kosin jkosin at intcomgrp.com
Wed Dec 31 20:35:42 UTC 2003


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "technical" <technical at sojourn.dyndns.org>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 3:13 PM
Subject: could some explain to /etc/aliases


| what is being forwared to what? what are rules?
|
| mailer-daemon:  postmaster
| postmaster:     root
|
|
<snip>

Any mail for mailer-daemon will go to postmaster.
Any mail for postmaster will go to root.

This is a fairly standard alias file.  You can setup a user called xxyyzz
and have an email alias for him such as GeorgeCluney.  So that anyone who
emails GeorgeCluney at ....  will actaully go to xxyyzz at ....

Lookup the use of addalias for more details.

James Kosin






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