Provided by: postfix_2.11.0-1ubuntu1.2_amd64 
NAME
postmap - Postfix lookup table management
SYNOPSIS
postmap [-Nbfhimnoprsuvw] [-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. Unlike with Postfix alias databases, quotes cannot be used to protect lookup keys
that contain special characters such as `#' or whitespace.
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 2822 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.
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 2822 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.
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.
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 Upgrade the database to the current version.
-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.
syslog_facility (mail)
The syslog facility of Postfix logging.
syslog_name (see 'postconf -d' output)
The mail system name that is prepended to the process name in syslog records, so
that "smtpd" becomes, for example, "postfix/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
POSTMAP(1)