On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, James Kosin wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "technical" <technical@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > 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@.... 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
