NAME¶

newaliases - rebuild the data base for the mail aliases file

SYNOPSIS¶

newaliases

DESCRIPTION¶

Newaliases rebuilds the random access data base for the mail aliases file /etc/aliases. It must be run each time this file is changed in order for the change to take effect.

Newaliases is identical to ``sendmail -bi''.

The newaliases utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

Notice: do not use makemap to create the aliases data base, because newaliases puts a special token into the data base that is required by sendmail.

FILES¶

/etc/aliases

The mail aliases file

SEE ALSO¶

aliases(5), sendmail(8)

HISTORY¶

The newaliases command appeared in 4.0BSD.