rt-validate-aliases(8)

✨ rt-validate-aliases(8) ✨

okay bestie, so this is a little section-8 manual page from the Request Tracker Reference — it's the rt-validate-aliases command, and no, it is not here to send mail for you. It's here to do a vibe check on your MTA alias files. 🦋

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💅 NAME 💅

rt-validate-aliases — validate MTA alias files that have aliases for RT in them.

Like, it's the friend who reads your alias file and goes "hmm, that's not giving what you think it's giving." 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

Yep, that's the whole thing. You give it options (if you want, they're optional, lowkey iconic of them) and you hand it an alias file. The example file in the synopsis is literally /etc/aliases, so like… that's the classic one. 💖

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

🌸 the flags, one by one

• --prefix — an expected address prefix used in the alias file. So if your aliases are all like something-something, this is where you tell it what that something is supposed to be. ✨
• --url — the root URL of your RT server. And listen, it has to be the same URL you expect to be passed to rt-mailgate — same one, fr fr. Don't get cute with it. 🫶
• --host — the host part of your RT email addresses. Like, the @wherever bit. That part. 💌

no cap: that's genuinely every option on this page. Three little flags. Three. That's the whole menu. 🍓

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🧚 a lil closing energy 🧚

This beauty is documented under perl v5.40.1, and it was wearing this outfit on 2026-06-21. Go validate those aliases, bestie — your MTA will thank you, and so will everyone waiting on a ticket to actually show up. 😭💖

periodt. 💅