could some explain to /etc/aliases

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, James Kosin wrote:

> 
> ----- 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 ....

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