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+.\" $OpenBSD: aliases.5,v 1.13 2016/06/30 18:41:39 gilles Exp $
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 8 2016 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 30 2016 $
.Dt ALIASES 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
(see
.Xr mailaddr 7 ) .
If an address extension is appended to the user-part,
-it is stripped so that an address such as user+ext@example.com
+it is first compared for an exact match.
+It is then stripped so that an address such as user+ext@example.com
will only use the part that precedes
.Sq +
as a