3 aliasmail \- expand system wide mail aliases
10 expands mail aliases, its arguments, according to alias files.
12 is normally invoked by a rule in the
16 If a line of an alias file begins with
18 the line is replaced by the contents of the file whose name follows.
19 Other lines, beginning with
21 are ignored as comment.
23 Otherwise, lines begin with a name.
24 The rest of a name line gives the expansion.
25 The expansion may contain multiple addresses and may be continued
26 to another line by appending a backslash.
27 Items are separated by white space.
29 The alias files are searched in the order they are
30 listed, one per line, in
31 .BR /mail/lib/namefiles .
32 If the name is not found, the expansion is taken to be
38 .B /mail/lib/fromfiles
39 are consulted instead,
40 and the domain part only of the expansion is printed.
42 .TF /mail/lib/namefiles
44 .B /mail/lib/namefiles
45 names of system alias files
48 .B /sys/src/cmd/upas/alias