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NAME
postmap - Postfix lookup table management
SYNOPSIS
postmap [-Ninrvw] [-c config_dir] [-d key] [-q key]
[file_type:]file_name ...
DESCRIPTION
The postmap command creates or queries one or more Postfix
lookup tables, or updates an existing one. The input and
output file formats are expected to be compatible with:
makemap file_type file_name < file_name
While the table update is in progress, signal delivery is
postponed, and an exclusive, advisory, lock is placed on
the entire table, in order to avoid surprises in spectator
programs.
The format of a lookup table input file is as follows:
o Blank lines are ignored. So are lines beginning
with `#'.
o A table entry has the form
key whitespace value
o A line that starts with whitespace continues the
preceding line.
The key and value are processed as is, except that sur-
rounding white space is stripped off. Unlike with Postfix
alias databases, quotes cannot be used to protect lookup
keys that contain special characters such as `#' or
whitespace. The key is mapped to lowercase to make mapping
lookups case insensitive.
Options:
-N Include the terminating null character that termi-
nates lookup keys and values. By default, Postfix
does whatever is the default for the host operating
system.
-c config_dir
Read the main.cf configuration file in the named
directory instead of the default configuration
directory.
-d key Search the specified maps for key and remove one
entry per map. The exit status is non-zero if the
requested information was not found.
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-i Incremental mode. Read entries from standard input
and do not truncate an existing database. By
default, postmap creates a new database from the
entries in file_name.
-n Don't include the terminating null character that
terminates lookup keys and values. By default,
Postfix does whatever is the default for the host
operating system.
-q key Search the specified maps for key and print the
first value found on the standard output stream.
The exit status is non-zero if the requested infor-
mation was not found.
-r When updating a table, do not warn about duplicate
entries; silently replace them.
-v Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Mul-
tiple -v options make the software increasingly
verbose.
-w When updating a table, do not warn about duplicate
entries; silently ignore them.
Arguments:
file_type
The type of database to be produced.
btree The output file is a btree file, named
file_name.db. This is available only on
systems with support for db databases.
dbm The output consists of two files, named
file_name.pag and file_name.dir. This is
available only on systems with support for
dbm databases.
hash The output file is a hashed file, named
file_name.db. This is available only on
systems with support for db databases.
When no file_type is specified, the software uses
the database type specified via the database_type
configuration parameter.
file_name
The name of the lookup table source file when
rebuilding a database.
DIAGNOSTICS
Problems and transactions are logged to the standard error
stream. No output means no problems. Duplicate entries are
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skipped and are flagged with a warning.
postmap terminates with zero exit status in case of suc-
cess (including successful postmap -q lookup) and termi-
nates with non-zero exit status in case of failure.
BUGS
The "delete key" support is limited to one delete opera-
tion per command invocation.
ENVIRONMENT
MAIL_CONFIG
Directory with Postfix configuration files.
MAIL_VERBOSE
Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes.
CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
database_type
Default output database type. On many UNIX sys-
tems, the default database type is either hash or
dbm.
LICENSE
The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this
software.
AUTHOR(S)
Wietse Venema
IBM T.J. Watson Research
P.O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
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