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NEWALIASES(1) General Commands Manual NEWALIASES(1)

newaliasesrebuild the data base for the mail aliases file

newaliases

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.

/etc/aliases
The mail aliases file

aliases(5), sendmail(8)

The newaliases command appeared in 4.0BSD.

BSD 4 February 22, 1994 NEWALIASES(1)