=head2 Documentation about sendmail aliases man aliases left hand side can have special chars if double quoted. the command (*after* the pipe) can be double quoted if necessary http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/usail/mail/aliasing/ .forward, :include:, program pipes http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/networking/sendmail/ch24_04.htm plus addressing http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html the "virtusertable" two columns tab separated mapping email address to output. can be mapped to "error:nouser No such user here" preserves the + part if "%3" is included in mapping not recursive (?) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html overview of config files /etc/mail/access is for who can connect, and if so, what they can do http://www.courier-mta.org/?makealiases.html unlike sendmail, allows unquoted @ in left hand side http://www.freebsddiary.org/virtualmail.php http://www.freebsddiary.org/majordomovirtual.php the painful step in mapping in virtusertable to something without @ then putting that other thing in sendmail.cf or aliases http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/x15291.html /etc/mail/local-host-names are virtual hosts that are accepted