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6-2 Netra Internet Server 3.1 User’s Manual—September 1996
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Mail Aliases
Mail aliases are used to redirect mail that is sent to one or more mail addresses.
Aliases are used for any mail that is sent to the Netra server, including mail
sent from local clients and mail sent from the Internet. Two useful ways to use
aliases are: (i) to send mail to a group of users (group aliases) and (ii) to
redirect mail for single users (personal aliases).
Group Aliases
Group aliases generally have more than one member. For example, suppose the
members of a volleyball team are on an alias called
vball
. If mail is sent to the
vball
alias, each member of the team will receive a copy of that mail. The
sender does not have to know each team member’s mail address or even who
is on the team.
Personal Aliases
Personal aliases usually have only a single member. Such aliases redirect mail
to either a different user or to the same user on a different machine. For
example, if user Tom wants his mail sent to his personal machine,
grover
, add
a personal alias for Tom (with the user name
tom
) to the Netra server. The alias
will contain one member:
tom@grover
. The name of the alias will be the same
as Tom’s user name (that is,
tom
).
To send mail to an alias, address the mail as if it were going to any user on the
Netra server. Thus, if you send mail to
vball@stimpy.tv.net
, it will reach
the members of the volleyball team. If you send mail to
tom@stimpy.tv.net
,
it will go to
tom@grover.tv.net
.
Alias members must be valid mail addresses on the Netra server. If a user
receives mail on the Netra server, then only the user name is required. If this
user receives mail on another host, then the user name and the host name
(username@hostname) must be used when specifying this user as an alias
member. You can also use a fully qualified host name.
An alias member list can also contain other aliases as members. This is helpful
if you want to circumvent the 1000-character limit on the alias member list.