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.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Proofpoint, Inc. and its suppliers.
.\" All rights reserved.
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1997 Eric P. Allman. All rights reserved.
.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set
.\" forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of
.\" the sendmail distribution.
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.\"
.\" $Id: newaliases.1,v 8.20 2013-11-22 20:51:56 ca Exp $
.\"
.TH NEWALIASES 8 "$Date: 2013-11-22 20:51:56 $"
.SH NAME
newaliases
\- rebuild the data base for the mail aliases file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B newaliases
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Newaliases
rebuilds the random access data base for the mail aliases file
/etc/mail/aliases. It must be run each time this file is changed
in order for the change to take effect.
.PP
.B Newaliases
is identical to ``sendmail \-bi''.
.PP
The
.B newaliases
utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
.PP
Notice: do
.B not
use
.B makemap
to create the aliases data base, because
.B newaliases
puts a special token into the data base that is required by
.B sendmail.
.SH FILES
.TP 2i
/etc/mail/aliases
The mail aliases file
.SH SEE ALSO
aliases(5), sendmail(8)
.SH HISTORY
The
.B newaliases
command appeared in 4.0BSD.
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