Bug#398965: exim4: The format and usage of /etc/aliases should be documented preferably in a manpage

[vaqflabuopac at spammotel.com]

Package: exim4
Version: 4.50-8sarge2
Severity: normal

The format and content of /etc/aliases is not documented and there
should be a manpage describing its content and how it can be used.
I rescently came across a usenet reference to some content of an
/etc/aliases file that made me curious as to what was possible when
configuring this file. The posters file contained the following line.
'test2: :include:/var/www/web1/html/mailinglists/test2'
I could find no reference to the content of /etc/aliases and dont know
how to use such things as 'include'. I could not even find out what is
expected to happen when aliasing a user to another alias, or to a
non-existing user.
There should be a manpage for /etc/aliases explaining its formant and
possible usage senerios.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.50 #1 built 11-Apr-2006 12:29:22
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December  3, 2003)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (470, 'testing'), (460, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  exim4-base                  4.50-8sarge2 support files for all exim MTA (v4
ii  exim4-daemon-light          4.50-8sarge2 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon

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