{
    $OUT = '';

    # Generate qmail user assignments for the alias user. This will be
    # handled by ~alias/.qmail.

    my (undef, undef, $uid, $gid, undef, undef, undef, $dir, undef)
	= getpwnam("alias");

    # It is almost impossible to get Text::Template to output nothing
    # on failure. It can be done by removing the newline at the end of
    # this file but that is messy. Therefore, we'll simply return an
    # error message that will make qmail-newu fail. Also send a
    # warning message that will be captured in the logs.

    unless (defined $uid && defined $gid && defined $dir)
    {
	my $msg =
	    "Failed to obtain user details for \'alias\' "
	    . "while processing alias assignment.";

	warn "$msg\n";
	$OUT = $msg;
	return;
    }

    # Assign mail for the alias user itself, and for alias-ext.

    my $alias_assign = "alias:${uid}:${gid}:${dir}";
    $OUT .= "=alias:${alias_assign}:::\n";
    $OUT .= "+alias-:${alias_assign}:-::";
}