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NEWALIASES(8) System Manager's Manual NEWALIASES(8)

newaliases - update /etc/aliases database

newaliases

This is a link to the ssmtp binary. It invokes /usr/sbin/sendmail with the -bi option. It is provided for compatibility with the sendmail program.

In this case it does absolutely nothing since sSMTP does not support /etc/aliases and is just there to avoid programs returning error messages.

This manual page was written by Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Minor fixes by Matt Ryan <mryan@debian.org>

September 2000 Debian GNU/Linux