NAME
newaliases — rebuilds the database for the mail aliases file
DESCRIPTION
newaliases
rebuilds the random access database for the mail aliases file
/etc/mail/aliases.
It must be run each time this file is changed in order
for the change to take effect.
newaliases
is identical to
sendmail -bi.
Options
- -on
Validate addresses.
When
sendmail
rebuilds the alias database files,
it will check the legality of
all addresses to the right of the colons.
Each address is validated.
If the validation fails, the address is skipped
and a warning message is displayed.
RETURN VALUE
The
newaliases
utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
AUTHOR
newaliases
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley,
and originally appeared in 4.0BSD. The manual page
originally came from
sendmail 8.7.
FILES
- /etc/mail/aliases
The mail aliases file.
- /etc/mail/aliases.db
Database of alias names.
