NAME
mailalias - translate mail alias names

SYNOPSIS
mailalias [ -s ] [ -v ] name ...

DESCRIPTION
mailalias is called by mail. It places on the standard output a list of mail addresses corresponding to name. The mail addresses are found by performing the following steps:

1.  Look for the file /var/mail/name. If found, print name and exit.

2.  Look for a match in the user's local alias file $HOME/lib/names. If a line is found beginning with the word name, print the rest of the line on standard output and exit.

3.  Look for a match in the system-wide alias files, which are listed in the master path file /etc/mail/namefiles. If a line is found beginning with the word name, print the rest of the line on standard output and exit.

If an alias file is a directory name dir, then search the file dir/name. By default, the file /etc/mail/namefiles lists the directory /etc/mail/lists and the file /etc/mail/names.

4.  Otherwise print name and exit.

The alias files may contain comments (lines beginning with #) and information lines of the form:

    name list-of-addresses

Tokens on these lines are separated by white-space. Lines may be continued by placing a backslash (\) at the end of the line.

If the -s option is not specified and more than one name is being translated, each line of output will be prefixed with the name being translated.

The -v option causes debugging information to be written to standard output.

FILES
$HOME/lib/names
    private aliases
/etc/mail/namefiles
    list of files to search
/etc/mail/names
    standard file to search

SEE ALSO
uucp(1), mail(1).
smtp(1M), smtpd(1M), smtpqer(1M), smtpsched(1M), tosmtp(1M) in the System Administrator's Reference Manual.