tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Nhan Tran) (02/19/91)
Thank you to all who have answered my question about how to set system-wide
mail alias.
I summarize it here for the benefits of those who don't know about it:
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In the directory /usr/lib/mail, edit the file aliases in the following format:
group:user1,user2,...
You have to be the superuser, owner & group of the file should be bin,
permision should be 0644.
You can hash it to speed it up by running (in the same directory)
./aliashash aliases
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The maliases file is used for machine aliases and would look like this:
uunet: joe!fred!tom!uunet!
To send mail through uunet, you would "mail uunet?sam" and uunet? would be
replaced by joe!fred!tom!uunet!sam
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The faliases file is for temporary forwarding aliases, and is for
temporary in- or out-of-system forwarding.
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You can also hash those two files too.
Nhan