RELOCATED(5) RELOCATED(5)
NAME
relocated - Postfix relocated table format
SYNOPSIS
postmap /etc/postfix/relocated
DESCRIPTION
The optional relocated(5) table provides the information that is used in "user has moved to new_loca-tion" new_location"
tion" bounce messages.
Normally, the relocated(5) table is specified as a text file that 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. Execute the command "postmap /etc/postfix/relocated" to rebuild an indexed file after chang-ing changing
ing the corresponding relocated table.
When the table is provided via other means such as NIS, LDAP or SQL, the same lookups are done as for
ordinary indexed files.
Alternatively, the table can be provided as a regular-expression map where patterns are given as reg-ular regular
ular expressions, or lookups can be directed to TCP-based server. In those case, the lookups are done
in a slightly different way as described below under "REGULAR EXPRESSION TABLES" or "TCP-BASED
TABLES".
Table lookups are case insensitive.
CASE FOLDING
The search string is folded to lowercase before database lookup. As of Postfix 2.3, the search string
is not case folded with database types such as regexp: or pcre: whose lookup fields can match both
upper and lower case.
TABLE FORMAT
The input format for the postmap(1) command is as follows:
An entry has one of the following form:
pattern new_location
Where new_location specifies contact information such as an email address, or perhaps a street
address or telephone number.
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.
TABLE SEARCH ORDER
With lookups from indexed files such as DB or DBM, or from networked tables such as NIS, LDAP or SQL,
patterns are tried in the order as listed below:
user@domain
Matches user@domain. This form has precedence over all other forms.
user Matches user@site when site is $myorigin, when site is listed in $mydestination, or when site
is listed in $inet_interfaces or $proxy_interfaces.
@domain
Matches other addresses in domain. This form has the lowest precedence.
ADDRESS EXTENSION
When a mail address localpart contains the optional recipient delimiter (e.g., user+foo@domain), the
lookup order becomes: user+foo@domain, user@domain, user+foo, user, and @domain.
REGULAR EXPRESSION TABLES
This section describes how the table lookups change when the table is given in the form of regular
expressions or when lookups are directed to a TCP-based server. For a description of regular expres-sion expression
sion lookup table syntax, see regexp_table(5) or pcre_table(5). For a description of the TCP
client/server table lookup protocol, see tcp_table(5). This feature is not available up to and
including Postfix version 2.4.
Each pattern is a regular expression that is applied to the entire address being looked up. Thus,
user@domain mail addresses are not broken up into their user and @domain constituent parts, nor is
user+foo broken up into user and foo.
Patterns are applied in the order as specified in the table, until a pattern is found that matches
the search string.
Results are the same as with indexed file lookups, with the additional feature that parenthesized
substrings from the pattern can be interpolated as $1, $2 and so on.
TCP-BASED TABLES
This section describes how the table lookups change when lookups are directed to a TCP-based server.
For a description of the TCP client/server lookup protocol, see tcp_table(5). This feature is not
available up to and including Postfix version 2.4.
Each lookup operation uses the entire address once. Thus, user@domain mail addresses are not broken
up into their user and @domain constituent parts, nor is user+foo broken up into user and foo.
Results are the same as with indexed file lookups.
BUGS
The table format does not understand quoting conventions.
CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
The following main.cf parameters are especially relevant. The text below provides only a parameter
summary. See postconf(5) for more details including examples.
relocated_maps
List of lookup tables for relocated users or sites.
Other parameters of interest:
inet_interfaces
The network interface addresses that this system receives mail on. You need to stop and start
Postfix when this parameter changes.
mydestination
List of domains that this mail system considers local.
myorigin
The domain that is appended to locally-posted mail.
proxy_interfaces
Other interfaces that this machine receives mail on by way of a proxy agent or network address
translator.
SEE ALSO
trivial-rewrite(8), address resolver
postmap(1), Postfix lookup table manager
postconf(5), configuration parameters
README FILES
Use "postconf readme_directory" or "postconf html_directory" to locate this information.
DATABASE_README, Postfix lookup table overview
ADDRESS_REWRITING_README, address rewriting guide
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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