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24.9.1 AliasFile
Define the aliases file location All versions
The AliasFile option must be declared for sendmail to do aliasing. If you omit this option,
sendmail might silently assume that you do not want to do aliasing at all. There is no
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default compiled into sendmail for the location of the aliases file.* For mc configurations, an
appropriate default will be defined based on your operating system.
If you specify a file that doesn??™t exist (such as /et/mail/aliases if you really meant /etc/mail/
aliases) or one that is unreadable, sendmail complains with, for example:
Can't open /et/mail/aliases
This is a nonfatal error. The sendmail program prints it and continues to run but assumes
that it shouldn??™t do aliasing.
The forms of the AliasFile option are as follows:
O AliasFile=location ?†? configuration file (V8.
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