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Mail Aliases

Mail aliases allow the use of shorter, more meaningful addresses instead of their long form. For example,
mail claude
could be used instead of
mail claude.cantin@nrc.ca

Mail client packages handle mail aliases using different methods, and different configuration files.

Group aliases are collections of mail aliases. Using group aliases, one could send mail to many destinations at once.



Claude Cantin 2010-10-24