NetBSD/gnu/dist/postfix/conf/transport
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# TRANSPORT(5) TRANSPORT(5)
#
# NAME
# transport - format of Postfix transport table
#
# SYNOPSIS
# postmap /etc/postfix/transport
#
# postmap -q "string" /etc/postfix/transport
#
# postmap -q - /etc/postfix/transport <inputfile
#
# DESCRIPTION
# The optional transport table specifies a mapping from
# email addresses 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 in section "REGULAR EXPRESSION
# TABLES".
#
# TABLE FORMAT
# The format of the transport table is as follows:
#
# pattern result
# When pattern matches the recipient address or
# domain, use the corresponding result.
#
# blank lines and comments
# Empty lines and whitespace-only lines are ignored,
# as are lines whose first non-whitespace character
# is a `#'.
#
# multi-line text
# A logical line starts with non-whitespace text. A
# line that starts with whitespace continues a logi-
# cal line.
#
# The pattern specifies an email address, a domain name, or
# a domain name hierarchy, as described in section "TABLE
# LOOKUP".
#
# The result is of the form transport:nexthop. The trans-
# port field specifies a mail delivery transport such as
# smtp or local. The nexthop field specifies where and how
# to deliver mail. More details are given in section "RESULT
# FORMAT".
#
# TABLE LOOKUP
# 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:
#
# user+extension@domain transport:nexthop
# Mail for user+extension@domain is delivered through
# transport to nexthop.
#
# user@domain transport:nexthop
# Mail for user@domain is delivered through transport
# to nexthop.
#
# 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. This applies only
# when the string transport_maps is not listed in the
# parent_domain_matches_subdomains configuration set-
# ting. Otherwise, a domain name matches itself and
# its subdomains.
#
# Note 1: the special pattern * represents any address (i.e.
# it functions as the wild-card pattern).
#
# Note 2: the null recipient address is looked up as
# $empty_address_recipient@$myhostname (default: mailer-dae-
# mon@hostname).
#
# RESULT FORMAT
# The transport field specifies the name of a mail delivery
# transport (the first name of a mail delivery service entry
# in the Postfix master.cf file).
#
# 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 is required when you specify an IP address instead of
# a hostname.
#
# A null transport and null nexthop result means "do not
# change": use the delivery transport and nexthop informa-
# tion that would be used when the entire transport table
# did not exist.
#
# A non-null transport field with a null nexthop field
# resets the nexthop information to the recipient domain.
#
# A null transport field with non-null nexthop field does
# not modify the transport information.
#
# EXAMPLES
# In order to deliver internal mail directly, while using a
# mail relay for all other mail, specify a null entry for
# internal destinations (do not change the delivery trans-
# port or the nexthop information) and specify a wildcard
# for all other destinations.
#
# my.domain :
# .my.domain :
# * smtp:outbound-relay.my.domain
#
# 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, Postfix uses the transport
# that matches the address domain class (see TRANSPORT FIELD
# discussion above). 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.
#
# 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 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.
#
# empty_address_recipient
# The address that is looked up instead of the null
# sender address.
#
# parent_domain_matches_subdomains
# List of Postfix features that use domain.tld pat-
# terns to match sub.domain.tld (as opposed to
# requiring .domain.tld patterns).
#
# transport_maps
# List of transport lookup tables.
#
# 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.
#
# AUTHOR(S)
# Wietse Venema
# IBM T.J. Watson Research
# P.O. Box 704
# Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
#
# TRANSPORT(5)