-f

Specify another name for the aliases file praliases command-line switch

Ordinarily, praliases gathers the path to, and the name for, its aliases database files from the sendmail configuration file. There will be times, however, when you will need to print statistics from information in another aliases database file. Consider, for example, the desire to print the contents of just one of many aliases database files. In such a scenario, you might run a command such as this:

% praliases -f /etc/mail/aliases/clients

Get sendmail, 4th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.