VIRTUAL(5) VIRTUAL(5)
NAME
virtual - format of Postfix virtual table
SYNOPSIS
postmap /etc/postfix/virtual
DESCRIPTION
The optional virtual table specifies redirections for local and non-local recipients or domains. The redirec- tions are used by the cleanup(8) daemon. The redirections are recursive. The virtual redirection is applied only to the recipient envelope address, and does not affect message headers. Think Sendmail rule set S0, if you like. Use canonical(5) mapping to rewrite header and envelope addresses in gen- eral. The file 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. After an update it may take a minute or so before the change becomes visible. Issue a postfix reload command to eliminate the delay. Typical support for a virtual domain looks like the fol- lowing: virtual.domain anything (right-hand content does not matter) user1@virtual.domain address1 user2@virtual.domain address2, address3 With this, the SMTP server accepts mail for virtual.domain and rejects mail for unknown@virtual.domain as undeliver- able. The format of the virtual table is as follows, mappings being tried in the order as listed in this manual page: blanks and comments Blank lines are ignored, as are lines beginning with `#'. user@domain address, address, ... Mail for user@domain is redirected to address. This form has the highest precedence. user address, address, ... Mail for user@site is redirected to address when site is equal to $myorigin, when site is listed in $mydestination, or when it is listed in $inet_interfaces. This functionality overlaps with functionality of the local alias(5) database. The difference is that 1 VIRTUAL(5) VIRTUAL(5) virtual mapping can be applied to non-local addresses. @domain address, address, ... Mail for any user in domain is redirected to address. This form has the lowest precedence. In all the above forms, when address has the form @other- domain, the result is the same user in otherdomain. This works for the first address in the expansion only.
ADDRESS EXTENSION
When the search fails, and the address localpart contains the optional recipient delimiter (e.g., user+foo@domain), the search is repeated for the unextended address (e.g. user@domain), and the unmatched address extension is prop- agated to the result of expansion. The matching order is: user+foo@domain, user@domain, user+foo, user, and @domain.
BUGS
The table format does not understand quoting conventions.
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. virtual_maps List of virtual mapping tables. Other parameters of interest: inet_interfaces The network interface addresses that this system receives mail on. mydestination List of domains that this mail system considers local. myorigin The domain that is appended to locally-posted mail. owner_request_special Give special treatment to owner-xxx and xxx-request addresses.
SEE ALSO
cleanup(8) canonicalize and enqueue mail postmap(1) create mapping table
LICENSE
The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this 2 VIRTUAL(5) VIRTUAL(5) software.
AUTHOR(S)
Wietse Venema IBM T.J. Watson Research P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA 3
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