On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, James Kosin wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "technical" <technical(a)sojourn.dyndns.org>
To: <fedora-list(a)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?
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| mailer-daemon: postmaster
| postmaster: root
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|
<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@.... will actaully go to xxyyzz@....
it's possible that the original poster was asking a deeper question,
which was whether aliases were transitive. that is, it's legal to have
aliases defined in terms of other aliases.
Lookup the use of addalias for more details.
you probably meant "newaliases", not "addalias".
rday