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From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To: Wayne G Boyd <wayne@jce.wintermute.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: mail aliasing
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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, I wrote:

> You can do this two ways:
> 
> 1. Put the line into /etc/aliases containing the email addresses.
> 
> 2. List them in an external file and reference to it from /etc/aliases.

The benefit of the second method, is that you will not need to run
newaliases each time you add to the external file.

Regards,

d.

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