Ubuntu Manpage: postmap - Postfix lookup table management

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NAME

       postmap - Postfix lookup table management

SYNOPSIS

       postmap [-bfFhimnNoprsuUvw] [-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.

       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 -F option is given, the value must specify one or more filenames separated by
comma and/or whitespace; postmap(1) will concatenate the file content (with a newline
character inserted between files) and will store the base64-encoded result instead of the
value.

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.

-F When querying a map, or listing a map, base64-decode each value. When creating a
map from source file, process each value as a list of filenames, concatenate the
content of those files, and store the base64-encoded result instead of the value
(see INPUT FORMAT for details).

-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.

-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.

Note: this performs a single query with the key as specified, and does not make
iterative queries with substrings of the key as described for access(5),
canonical(5), transport(5), virtual(5) and other Postfix table-driven features.

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.

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.

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

lmdb The output is a btree-based file, named file_name.lmdb. lmdb supports
concurrent writes and reads from different processes, unlike other supported
file-based tables. This is available on systems with support for lmdb
databases.

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) or postlogd(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".

       Available in Postfix 2.11 and later:

       lmdb_map_size (16777216)
              The initial OpenLDAP LMDB database size limit in bytes.

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

                                                                                       POSTMAP(1)

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

INPUT FILE FORMAT

COMMAND-LINE ARGUMENTS

DIAGNOSTICS

ENVIRONMENT

CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS

SEE ALSO

README FILES

LICENSE

AUTHOR(S)