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: ----------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------- The faliases file is for temporary forwarding aliases, and is for temporary in- or out-of-system forwarding. --------------------------------------- You can also hash those two files too. Nhan