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diff --git a/proto/virtual b/proto/virtual new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8f04732 --- /dev/null +++ b/proto/virtual @@ -0,0 +1,302 @@ +#++ +# NAME +# virtual 5 +# SUMMARY +# Postfix virtual alias table format +# SYNOPSIS +# \fBpostmap /etc/postfix/virtual\fR +# +# \fBpostmap -q "\fIstring\fB" /etc/postfix/virtual\fR +# +# \fBpostmap -q - /etc/postfix/virtual <\fIinputfile\fR +# DESCRIPTION +# The optional \fBvirtual\fR(5) alias table rewrites recipient +# addresses for all local, all virtual, and all remote mail +# destinations. +# This is unlike the \fBaliases\fR(5) table which is used +# only for \fBlocal\fR(8) delivery. Virtual aliasing is +# recursive, and is implemented by the Postfix \fBcleanup\fR(8) +# daemon before mail is queued. +# +# The main applications of virtual aliasing are: +# .IP \(bu +# To redirect mail for one address to one or more addresses. +# .IP \(bu +# To implement virtual alias domains where all addresses are aliased +# to addresses in other domains. +# .sp +# Virtual alias domains are not to be confused with the virtual mailbox +# domains that are implemented with the Postfix \fBvirtual\fR(8) mail +# delivery agent. With virtual mailbox domains, each recipient address +# can have its own mailbox. +# .PP +# Virtual aliasing is applied only to recipient +# envelope addresses, and does not affect message headers. +# Use \fBcanonical\fR(5) +# mapping to rewrite header and envelope addresses in general. +# +# Normally, the \fBvirtual\fR(5) alias table is specified as a text file +# that serves as input to the \fBpostmap\fR(1) command. +# The result, an indexed file in \fBdbm\fR or \fBdb\fR format, +# is used for fast searching by the mail system. Execute the command +# "\fBpostmap /etc/postfix/virtual\fR" to rebuild an indexed +# file after changing the corresponding text file. +# +# 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 regular 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". +# CASE FOLDING +# .ad +# .fi +# 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 +# .ad +# .fi +# The input format for the \fBpostmap\fR(1) command is as follows: +# .IP "\fIpattern address, address, ...\fR" +# When \fIpattern\fR matches a mail address, replace it by the +# corresponding \fIaddress\fR. +# .IP "blank lines and comments" +# Empty lines and whitespace-only lines are ignored, as +# are lines whose first non-whitespace character is a `#'. +# .IP "multi-line text" +# A logical line starts with non-whitespace text. A line that +# starts with whitespace continues a logical line. +# TABLE SEARCH ORDER +# .ad +# .fi +# With lookups from indexed files such as DB or DBM, or from networked +# tables such as NIS, LDAP or SQL, each \fIuser\fR@\fIdomain\fR +# query produces a sequence of query patterns as described below. +# +# Each query pattern is sent to each specified lookup table +# before trying the next query pattern, until a match is +# found. +# .IP "\fIuser\fR@\fIdomain address, address, ...\fR" +# Redirect mail for \fIuser\fR@\fIdomain\fR to \fIaddress\fR. +# This form has the highest precedence. +# .IP "\fIuser address, address, ...\fR" +# Redirect mail for \fIuser\fR@\fIsite\fR to \fIaddress\fR when +# \fIsite\fR is equal to $\fBmyorigin\fR, when \fIsite\fR is listed in +# $\fBmydestination\fR, or when it is listed in $\fBinet_interfaces\fR +# or $\fBproxy_interfaces\fR. +# .sp +# This functionality overlaps with functionality of the local +# \fIaliases\fR(5) database. The difference is that \fBvirtual\fR(5) +# mapping can be applied to non-local addresses. +# .IP "@\fIdomain address, address, ...\fR" +# Redirect mail for other users in \fIdomain\fR to \fIaddress\fR. +# This form has the lowest precedence. +# .sp +# Note: @\fIdomain\fR is a wild-card. With this form, the +# Postfix SMTP server accepts +# mail for any recipient in \fIdomain\fR, regardless of whether +# that recipient exists. This may turn your mail system into +# a backscatter source: Postfix first accepts mail for +# non-existent recipients and then tries to return that mail +# as "undeliverable" to the often forged sender address. +# .sp +# To avoid backscatter with mail for a wild-card domain, +# replace the wild-card mapping with explicit 1:1 mappings, +# or add a reject_unverified_recipient restriction for that +# domain: +# +# .nf +# smtpd_recipient_restrictions = +# ... +# reject_unauth_destination +# check_recipient_access +# inline:{example.com=reject_unverified_recipient} +# unverified_recipient_reject_code = 550 +#.fi +# +# In the above example, Postfix may contact a remote server +# if the recipient is aliased to a remote address. +# RESULT ADDRESS REWRITING +# .ad +# .fi +# The lookup result is subject to address rewriting: +# .IP \(bu +# When the result has the form @\fIotherdomain\fR, the +# result becomes the same \fIuser\fR in \fIotherdomain\fR. +# This works only for the first address in a multi-address +# lookup result. +# .IP \(bu +# When "\fBappend_at_myorigin=yes\fR", append "\fB@$myorigin\fR" +# to addresses without "@domain". +# .IP \(bu +# When "\fBappend_dot_mydomain=yes\fR", append +# "\fB.$mydomain\fR" to addresses without ".domain". +# ADDRESS EXTENSION +# .fi +# .ad +# When a mail address localpart contains the optional recipient delimiter +# (e.g., \fIuser+foo\fR@\fIdomain\fR), the lookup order becomes: +# \fIuser+foo\fR@\fIdomain\fR, \fIuser\fR@\fIdomain\fR, \fIuser+foo\fR, +# \fIuser\fR, and @\fIdomain\fR. +# +# The \fBpropagate_unmatched_extensions\fR parameter controls whether +# an unmatched address extension (\fI+foo\fR) is propagated to the +# result of table lookup. +# VIRTUAL ALIAS DOMAINS +# .ad +# .fi +# Besides virtual aliases, the virtual alias table can also be used +# to implement virtual alias domains. With a virtual alias domain, all +# recipient addresses are aliased to addresses in other domains. +# +# Virtual alias domains are not to be confused with the virtual mailbox +# domains that are implemented with the Postfix \fBvirtual\fR(8) mail +# delivery agent. With virtual mailbox domains, each recipient address +# can have its own mailbox. +# +# With a virtual alias domain, the virtual domain has its +# own user name space. Local (i.e. non-virtual) usernames are not +# visible in a virtual alias domain. In particular, local +# \fBaliases\fR(5) and local mailing lists are not visible as +# \fIlocalname@virtual-alias.domain\fR. +# +# Support for a virtual alias domain looks like: +# +# .nf +# /etc/postfix/main.cf: +# virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual +# .fi +# +# Note: some systems use \fBdbm\fR databases instead of \fBhash\fR. +# See the output from "\fBpostconf -m\fR" for available database types. +# +# .nf +# /etc/postfix/virtual: +# \fIvirtual-alias.domain anything\fR (right-hand content does not matter) +# \fIpostmaster@virtual-alias.domain postmaster\fR +# \fIuser1@virtual-alias.domain address1\fR +# \fIuser2@virtual-alias.domain address2, address3\fR +# .fi +# .sp +# The \fIvirtual-alias.domain anything\fR entry is required for a +# virtual alias domain. \fBWithout this entry, mail is rejected +# with "relay access denied", or bounces with +# "mail loops back to myself".\fR +# +# Do not specify virtual alias domain names in the \fBmain.cf +# mydestination\fR or \fBrelay_domains\fR configuration parameters. +# +# With a virtual alias domain, the Postfix SMTP server +# accepts mail for \fIknown-user@virtual-alias.domain\fR, and rejects +# mail for \fIunknown-user\fR@\fIvirtual-alias.domain\fR as undeliverable. +# +# Instead of specifying the virtual alias domain name via +# the \fBvirtual_alias_maps\fR table, you may also specify it via +# the \fBmain.cf virtual_alias_domains\fR configuration parameter. +# This latter parameter uses the same syntax as the \fBmain.cf +# mydestination\fR configuration parameter. +# REGULAR EXPRESSION TABLES +# .ad +# .fi +# This section describes how the table lookups change when the table +# is given in the form of regular expressions. For a description of +# regular expression lookup table syntax, see \fBregexp_table\fR(5) +# or \fBpcre_table\fR(5). +# +# Each pattern is a regular expression that is applied to the entire +# address being looked up. Thus, \fIuser@domain\fR mail addresses are not +# broken up into their \fIuser\fR and \fI@domain\fR constituent parts, +# nor is \fIuser+foo\fR broken up into \fIuser\fR and \fIfoo\fR. +# +# 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 \fB$1\fR, \fB$2\fR and so on. +# TCP-BASED TABLES +# .ad +# .fi +# This section describes how the table lookups change when lookups +# are directed to a TCP-based server. For a description of the TCP +# client/server lookup protocol, see \fBtcp_table\fR(5). +# This feature is not available up to and including Postfix version 2.4. +# +# Each lookup operation uses the entire address once. Thus, +# \fIuser@domain\fR mail addresses are not broken up into their +# \fIuser\fR and \fI@domain\fR constituent parts, nor is +# \fIuser+foo\fR broken up into \fIuser\fR and \fIfoo\fR. +# +# Results are the same as with indexed file lookups. +# BUGS +# The table format does not understand quoting conventions. +# CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS +# .ad +# .fi +# The following \fBmain.cf\fR parameters are especially relevant to +# this topic. See the Postfix \fBmain.cf\fR file for syntax details +# and for default values. Use the "\fBpostfix reload\fR" command after +# a configuration change. +# .IP "\fBvirtual_alias_maps ($virtual_maps)\fR" +# Optional lookup tables that alias specific mail addresses or domains +# to other local or remote address. +# .IP "\fBvirtual_alias_domains ($virtual_alias_maps)\fR" +# Postfix is final destination for the specified list of virtual +# alias domains, that is, domains for which all addresses are aliased +# to addresses in other local or remote domains. +# .IP "\fBpropagate_unmatched_extensions (canonical, virtual)\fR" +# What address lookup tables copy an address extension from the lookup +# key to the lookup result. +# .PP +# Other parameters of interest: +# .IP "\fBinet_interfaces (all)\fR" +# The network interface addresses that this mail system receives +# mail on. +# .IP "\fBmydestination ($myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost)\fR" +# The list of domains that are delivered via the $local_transport +# mail delivery transport. +# .IP "\fBmyorigin ($myhostname)\fR" +# The domain name that locally-posted mail appears to come +# from, and that locally posted mail is delivered to. +# .IP "\fBowner_request_special (yes)\fR" +# Enable special treatment for owner-\fIlistname\fR entries in the +# \fBaliases\fR(5) file, and don't split owner-\fIlistname\fR and +# \fIlistname\fR-request address localparts when the recipient_delimiter +# is set to "-". +# .IP "\fBproxy_interfaces (empty)\fR" +# The network interface addresses that this mail system receives mail +# on by way of a proxy or network address translation unit. +# SEE ALSO +# cleanup(8), canonicalize and enqueue mail +# postmap(1), Postfix lookup table manager +# postconf(5), configuration parameters +# canonical(5), canonical address mapping +# README FILES +# .ad +# .fi +# Use "\fBpostconf readme_directory\fR" or +# "\fBpostconf html_directory\fR" to locate this information. +# .na +# .nf +# ADDRESS_REWRITING_README, address rewriting guide +# DATABASE_README, Postfix lookup table overview +# VIRTUAL_README, domain hosting guide +# LICENSE +# .ad +# .fi +# 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 +#-- |