The mail aliases is a selection of user names that have been grouped together under a single name. Aliases are helpful to the user in case he has to send mails to same group again and again. There are two locations where the user can setup mail aliases:
- The .mailrc file
- The /etc/aliases file.
The differences between setting up the mail aliases in the .mailrc file and /etc/aliases file are as follows:
- The .mailrc does not require root permissions to be enabled to modify it, but the aliases folder requires root permission for modification.
- The .mailrc can be used to name all the recipients on one line whereas the aliases folder does not allow that.
- The .mailrc file does not require commas between names the file in aliases folder require commas.
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