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NAME

       postmap - Postfix lookup table management

SYNOPSIS

       postmap [-NAbfhimnoprsuUvw] [-c config_dir] [-d key] [-q key]
               [file_type:]file_name ...

DESCRIPTION

       The postmap(1) 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 their 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
       processes.

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. Whitespace in lookup keys is supported as of Postfix 3.2.

       When the key specifies email address information, the localpart should  be  enclosed  with
       double  quotes  if  required  by RFC 5322. For example, an address localpart that contains
       ";", or a localpart that starts or ends with ".".

       By default the lookup key is mapped to lowercase to make the lookups case insensitive;  as
       of Postfix 2.3 this case folding happens only with tables whose lookup keys are fixed-case
       strings such as btree:, dbm: or hash:. With earlier versions, the  lookup  key  is  folded
       even  with  tables  where a lookup field can match both upper and lower case text, such as
       regexp: and pcre:. This resulted in loss of information with $number substitutions.

COMMAND-LINE ARGUMENTS

       -b     Enable message body query mode. When reading lookup keys from standard  input  with
              "-q  -",  process  the input as if it is an email message in RFC 5322 format.  Each
              line of body content becomes one lookup key.

              By default, the -b option starts generating lookup keys  at  the  first  non-header
              line, and stops when the end of the message is reached.  To simulate body_checks(5)
              processing, enable MIME parsing with -m. With this,  the  -b  option  generates  no
              body-style  lookup  keys  for  attachment  MIME  headers and for attached message/*
              headers.

              NOTE: with "smtputf8_enable = yes", the -b  option  option  disables  UTF-8  syntax
              checks  on  query  keys  and  lookup  results. Specify the -U option to force UTF-8
              syntax checks anyway.

              This feature is available in Postfix version 2.6 and later.

       -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 table.

              With Postfix version  2.3  and  later,  this  option  has  no  effect  for  regular
              expression  tables.  There,  case  folding  is  controlled by appending a flag to a
              pattern.

       -h     Enable message header query mode. When reading lookup keys from standard input with
              "-q  -",  process  the input as if it is an email message in RFC 5322 format.  Each
              logical header line becomes one lookup key. A multi-line header becomes one  lookup
              key with one or more embedded newline characters.

              By  default, the -h option generates lookup keys until the first non-header line is
              reached.  To simulate header_checks(5) processing, enable  MIME  parsing  with  -m.
              With  this,  the  -h  option also generates header-style lookup keys for attachment
              MIME headers and for attached message/* headers.

              NOTE: with "smtputf8_enable = yes", the -b  option  option  disables  UTF-8  syntax
              checks  on  query  keys  and  lookup  results. Specify the -U option to force UTF-8
              syntax checks anyway.

              This feature is available in Postfix version 2.6 and later.

       -A     Upgrade the database to the current version.

       -i     Incremental mode. Read entries from standard input and do not truncate an  existing
              database.  By  default,  postmap(1)  creates  a  new  database  from the entries in
              file_name.

       -m     Enable MIME parsing with "-b" and "-h".

              This feature is available in Postfix version 2.6 and later.

       -N     Include the terminating null character that terminates lookup keys and  values.  By
              default, postmap(1) 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, postmap(1) 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(1) 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 complain about attempts to update  existing  entries,
              and make those updates anyway.

       -s     Retrieve  all  database  elements,  and write one line of key value output for each
              element. The elements are printed in database order, which is not  necessarily  the
              same as the original input order.

              This  feature  is  available in Postfix version 2.2 and later, and is not available
              for all database types.

       -u     Disable UTF-8 support. UTF-8 support is enabled by default when "smtputf8_enable  =
              yes". It requires that keys and values are valid UTF-8 strings.

       -U     With "smtputf8_enable = yes", force UTF-8 syntax checks with the -b and -h options.

       -v     Enable  verbose  logging  for  debugging  purposes.  Multiple  -v  options make the
              software increasingly verbose.

       -w     When updating a table, do not complain about attempts to update  existing  entries,
              and ignore those attempts.

       Arguments:

       file_type
              The  database  type.  To  find  out what types are supported, use the "postconf -m"
              command.

              The postmap(1) 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 on
                     systems with support for db databases.

              cdb    The output consists of one file, named file_name.cdb.  This is available  on
                     systems with support for cdb databases.

              dbm    The  output  consists  of  two files, named file_name.pag and file_name.dir.
                     This is available on systems with support for dbm databases.

              hash   The output file is a hashed file, named file_name.db.  This is available  on
                     systems with support for db databases.

              fail   A  table that reliably fails all requests. The lookup table name is used for
                     logging only. This table exists to simplify Postfix error tests.

              sdbm   The output consists of two files,  named  file_name.pag  and  file_name.dir.
                     This is available on systems with support for sdbm databases.

              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 database.

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(1)  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 program.  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 configuration files.

       default_database_type (see 'postconf -d' output)
              The  default  database  type  for use in newaliases(1), postalias(1) and postmap(1)
              commands.

       import_environment (see 'postconf -d' output)
              The list of environment parameters that a privileged Postfix  process  will  import
              from a non-Postfix parent process, or name=value environment overrides.

       smtputf8_enable (yes)
              Enable preliminary SMTPUTF8 support for the protocols described in RFC 6531..6533.

       syslog_facility (mail)
              The syslog facility of Postfix logging.

       syslog_name (see 'postconf -d' output)
              A  prefix  that  is  prepended  to the process name in syslog records, so that, for
              example, "smtpd" becomes "prefix/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

       Wietse Venema
       Google, Inc.
       111 8th Avenue
       New York, NY 10011, USA

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