postmap(1)
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POSTMAP(1) POSTMAP(1)
NAME
postmap - Postfix lookup table management
SYNOPSIS
postmap [-Nfinoprvw] [-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
If the result files do not exist they will be created with the same
group and other read permissions as the source file.
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.
INPUT FILE FORMAT
The format of a lookup table input file is as follows:
· A table entry has the form
key whitespace value
· Empty lines and whitespace-only lines are ignored, as are lines
whose first non-whitespace character is a `#'.
· A logical line starts with non-whitespace text. A line that
starts with whitespace continues a logical line.
The key and value are processed as is, except that surrounding white
space is stripped off. Unlike with Postfix alias databases, quotes can-
not 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.
COMMAND-LINE ARGUMENTS
-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 zero when the requested information was
found.
If a key value of - is specified, the program reads key values
from the standard input stream. The exit status is zero when at
least one of the requested keys was found.
-f Do not fold the lookup key to lower case while creating or
querying a map.
-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 Include the terminating null character that terminates lookup
keys and values. By default, Postfix does whatever is the
default for the host operating system.
-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.
-o Do not release root privileges when processing a non-root input
file. By default, postmap drops root privileges and runs as the
source file owner instead.
-p Do not inherit the file access permissions from the input file
when creating a new file. Instead, create a new file with
default access permissions (mode 0644).
-q key Search the specified maps for key and write the first value
found to the standard output stream. The exit status is zero
when the requested information was found.
If a key value of - is specified, the program reads key values
from the standard input stream and writes one line of key value
output for each key that was found. The exit status is zero when
at least one of the requested keys was found.
-r When updating a table, do not warn about duplicate entries;
silently replace them.
-v Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Multiple -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 database type. To find out what types are supported, use the
"postconf -m" command.
The postmap command can query any supported file type, but it
can create only the following file types:
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.
Use the command postconf -m to find out what types of database
your Postfix installation can support.
When no file_type is specified, the software uses the database
type specified via the default_database_type configuration
parameter.
file_name
The name of the lookup table source file when rebuilding a data-
base.
DIAGNOSTICS
Problems are logged to the standard error stream and to syslogd(8). No
output means that no problems were detected. Duplicate entries are
skipped and are flagged with a warning.
postmap terminates with zero exit status in case of success (including
successful postmap -q lookup) and terminates with non-zero exit status
in case of failure.
ENVIRONMENT
MAIL_CONFIG
Directory with Postfix configuration files.
MAIL_VERBOSE
Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes.
CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
The following main.cf parameters are especially relevant to this pro-
gram. The text below provides only a parameter summary. See postconf(5)
for more details including examples.
berkeley_db_create_buffer_size (16777216)
The per-table I/O buffer size for programs that create Berkeley
DB hash or btree tables.
berkeley_db_read_buffer_size (131072)
The per-table I/O buffer size for programs that read Berkeley DB
hash or btree tables.
config_directory (see 'postconf -d' output)
The default location of the Postfix main.cf and master.cf con-
figuration files.
default_database_type (see 'postconf -d' output)
The default database type for use in newaliases(1), postalias(1)
and postmap(1) commands.
syslog_facility (mail)
The syslog facility of Postfix logging.
syslog_name (postfix)
The mail system name that is prepended to the process name in
syslog records, so that "smtpd" becomes, for example, "post-
fix/smtpd".
SEE ALSO
postalias(1), create/update/query alias database
postconf(1), supported database types
postconf(5), configuration parameters
syslogd(8), system logging
README FILES
Use "postconf readme_directory" or "postconf html_directory" to locate
this information.
DATABASE_README, Postfix lookup table overview
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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