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NAME
transport - format of Postfix transport table
SYNOPSIS
postmap /etc/postfix/transport
DESCRIPTION
The optional transport table specifies a mapping from
domain hierarchies to message delivery transports and/or
relay hosts. The mapping is used by the trivial-rewrite(8)
daemon.
Normally, the transport table is specified as a text file
that serves as input to the postmap(1) command. The
result, an indexed file in dbm or db format, is used for
fast searching by the mail system. Execute the command
postmap /etc/postfix/transport in order to rebuild the
indexed file after changing the transport table.
When the table is provided via other means such as NIS,
LDAP or SQL, the same lookups are done as for ordinary
indexed files.
Alternatively, the table can be provided as a regular-
expression map where patterns are given as regular expres-
sions. In that case, the lookups are done in a slightly
different way as described below.
TABLE FORMAT
The format of the transport table is as follows:
blanks and comments
Blank lines are ignored, as are lines beginning
with `#'.
leading whitespace
Lines that begin with whitespace continue the pre-
vious line.
pattern result
When pattern matches the domain, use the corre-
sponding result.
With lookups from indexed files such as DB or DBM, or from
networked tables such as NIS, LDAP or SQL, patterns are
tried in the order as listed below:
domain transport:nexthop
Mail for domain is delivered through transport to
nexthop.
.domain transport:nexthop
Mail for any subdomain of domain is delivered
through transport to nexthop.
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Note: transport map entries take precedence over domains
specified in the mydestination parameter. If you use the
optional transport map, it may be safer to specify
explicit entries for all domains specified in mydestina-
tion, for example:
hostname.my.domain local:
localhost.my.domain local:
The interpretation of the nexthop field is transport
dependent. In the case of SMTP, specify host:service for a
non-default server port, and use [host] or [host]:port in
order to disable MX (mail exchanger) DNS lookups. The []
form can also be used with IP addresses instead of host-
names.
EXAMPLES
In order to send mail for foo.org and its subdomains via
the uucp transport to the UUCP host named foo:
foo.org uucp:foo
.foo.org uucp:foo
When no nexthop host name is specified, the destination
domain name is used instead. For example, the following
directs mail for user@foo.org via the slow transport to a
mail exchanger for foo.org. The slow transport could be
something that runs at most one delivery process at a
time:
foo.org slow:
When no transport is specified, the default transport is
used, as specified via the default_transport configuration
parameter. The following sends all mail for foo.org and
its subdomains to host gateway.foo.org:
foo.org :[gateway.foo.org]
.foo.org :[gateway.foo.org]
In the above example, the [] are used to suppress MX
lookups. The result would likely point to your local
machine.
In the case of delivery via SMTP, one may specify host-
name:service instead of just a host:
foo.org smtp:bar.org:2025
This directs mail for user@foo.org to host bar.org port
2025. Instead of a numerical port a symbolic name may be
used. Specify [] around the hostname in order to disable
MX lookups.
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The error mailer can be used to bounce mail:
.foo.org error:mail for *.foo.org is not deliv-
erable
This causes all mail for user@anything.foo.org to be
bounced.
REGULAR EXPRESSION TABLES
This section describes how the table lookups change when
the table is given in the form of regular expressions. For
a description of regular expression lookup table syntax,
see regexp_table(5) or pcre_table(5).
Each pattern is a regular expression that is applied to
the entire domain being looked up. Thus, some.domain.hier-
archy is not broken up into parent domains.
Patterns are applied in the order as specified in the
table, until a pattern is found that matches the search
string.
Results are the same as with normal indexed file lookups,
with the additional feature that parenthesized substrings
from the pattern can be interpolated as $1, $2 and so on.
CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
The following main.cf parameters are especially relevant
to this topic. See the Postfix main.cf file for syntax
details and for default values. Use the postfix reload
command after a configuration change.
transport_maps
List of transport lookup tables.
Other parameters of interest:
default_transport
The transport to use when no transport is explic-
itly specified.
relayhost
The default host to send to when no transport table
entry matches.
SEE ALSO
postmap(1) create mapping table
trivial-rewrite(8) rewrite and resolve addresses
pcre_table(5) format of PCRE tables
regexp_table(5) format of POSIX regular expression tables
LICENSE
The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this
software.
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AUTHOR(S)
Wietse Venema
IBM T.J. Watson Research
P.O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
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