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Table of Contents

Resource types

  • mailalias: Creates an email alias in the local alias database.

Resource types

mailalias

Creates an email alias in the local alias database.

Examples

using mailalias to redirect mail for the ftp account to root's mailbox
mailalias { 'ftp':
  ensure    => present,
  recipient => 'root',
}

Properties

The following properties are available in the mailalias type.

ensure

Valid values: present, absent

The basic property that the resource should be in.

Default value: present

file

A file containing the alias's contents. The file and the recipient entries are mutually exclusive.

recipient

Where email should be sent. Multiple values should be specified as an array. The file and the recipient entries are mutually exclusive.

target

The file in which to store the aliases. Only used by those providers that write to disk.

Parameters

The following parameters are available in the mailalias type.

name

namevar

The alias name.

provider

The specific backend to use for this mailalias resource. You will seldom need to specify this --- Puppet will usually discover the appropriate provider for your platform.