To add more than two or three aliases to the table, follow these instructions.
Compile a list of each of your mail clients, the locations of their mailboxes, and the names of the mail server systems.
Either be a member of the NIS+ group that owns the table, or become root on the mail server, or assume an equivalent role.
For information about roles, refer to “Using Privileged Applications” in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
Display and edit the aliases table.
# aliasadm -e |
This command displays the table and enables you to edit it. The editor you use has been set with the $EDITOR environment variable. If this variable is not set, vi is the default editor.
Use the following format to type each alias on a separate line.
alias: expanded_alias # ["option" # "comments"] |
alias |
This column is for the short form of the alias name. |
expanded_alias |
This column is for the expanded alias name. |
option |
This column is reserved for future use. |
comments |
This column is used for comments about the individual alias, such as a name for the alias. |
If you leave the option column blank, type an empty pair of quotation marks ("") and add the comments.
The order of the entries is not important to the NIS+ mail_aliases table. The aliasadm -l command sorts the list and displays the entries in alphabetical order.
For more information, refer to Mail Alias Files and the aliasadm(1M) man page.