RT-VALI...-ALIASES(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to rt-validate-aliases — she lives in section 1 of the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and she does exactly one iconic thing: she checks your MTA alias file against your RT queue configuration. that's it. that's the job. she's a vibe check for your aliases 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rt-validate-aliases [options] /etc/aliases

so you run her, you hand her your alias file (the example is /etc/aliases, classic), and she goes to work comparing it to what RT actually thinks exists. no cap ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --prefix — the address prefix you're expecting the alias file to use. like, "hey, all my addresses should start with this" and she'll check that they do 🦋
• --url — the root URL of your RT server. it's literally the same URL you expect to be passed to rt-mailgate, so don't get cute with a different one, bestie 🙈
• --host — the host part of your RT email addresses. just the host. the part after the @. that one 🌈

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lowkey important: --url and rt-mailgate need to agree on the same URL. she's checking your config against reality, so keep reality consistent, mmkay? 💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie — genuinely the most low-effort read in the whole perl docs, and she ATE 💀👑

perl v5.42.3 · 2026-07-20 · stay slaying on RT-VALI...-ALIASES(1) 🫶✨