cdist-type__mail_alias(7)¶

NAME¶

cdist-type__mail_alias - Manage mail aliases.

DESCRIPTION¶

This cdist type allows you to configure mail aliases (/etc/aliases).

REQUIRED PARAMETERS¶

None.

OPTIONAL PARAMETERS¶

state: ‘present’ or ‘absent’, defaults to ‘present’
alias: an alias, i.e. a mail address where mail for the user should be redirected to. This parameter can be specified multiple times to redirect to multiple recipients. If --state is present this parameter is required. See aliases(5) for the different forms this parameter can take.

BOOLEAN PARAMETERS¶

None.

EXAMPLES¶

# Redirect root mail to a "real" email address
__mail_alias root --alias admin@example.com

# Disable redirection of mail for joe
__mail_alias joe --state absent

BUGS¶

Quoted strings are not parsed by this type. As a result, aliases containing , (commas) are treated incorrectly (they are treated as separate aliases.) Make sure that email addresses, file names, and pipe commands do not contain commas.
:include: directives in the aliases file are not evaluated by this type. They are treated like a regular alias, the values of the included file are not expanded.

AUTHORS¶

Dennis Camera <dennis.camera@ssrq-sds-fds.ch>

COPYING¶

Copyright (C) 2020 Dennis Camera. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.