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CANONICAL(5)                                                      CANONICAL(5)

<b>NAME</b>
       canonical - Postfix canonical table format

<b>SYNOPSIS</b>
       <b>postmap /etc/postfix/canonical</b>

       <b>postmap -q "</b><i>string</i><b>" /etc/postfix/canonical</b>

       <b>postmap -q - /etc/postfix/canonical</b> &lt;<i>inputfile</i>

<b>DESCRIPTION</b>
       The  optional <a href="canonical.5.html"><b>canonical</b>(5)</a> table specifies an address mapping for local
       and non-local addresses. The mapping is used by the <a href="cleanup.8.html"><b>cleanup</b>(8)</a>  daemon,
       before  mail  is  stored into the queue.  The address mapping is recur-
       sive.

       Normally, the <a href="canonical.5.html"><b>canonical</b>(5)</a> table is  specified  as  a  text  file  that
       serves as input to the <a href="postmap.1.html"><b>postmap</b>(1)</a> command.  The result, an indexed file
       in <b>dbm</b> or <b>db</b> format, is used for fast searching  by  the  mail  system.
       Execute  the  command  "<b>postmap  /etc/postfix/canonical</b>"  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 a TCP-based server. In those cases, the lookups are done in
       a slightly different way as described below under  "REGULAR  EXPRESSION
       TABLES" or "TCP-BASED TABLES".

       By  default  the  <a href="canonical.5.html"><b>canonical</b>(5)</a>  mapping  affects  both  message  header
       addresses (i.e. addresses that  appear  inside  messages)  and  message
       envelope  addresses  (for  example, the addresses that are used in SMTP
       protocol commands).  This  is  controlled  with  the  <b><a href="postconf.5.html#canonical_classes">canonical_classes</a></b>
       parameter.

       NOTE:  Postfix  versions  2.2  and  later  rewrite message headers from
       remote SMTP clients only if the  client  matches  the  <a href="postconf.5.html#local_header_rewrite_clients">local_header_re</a>-
       <a href="postconf.5.html#local_header_rewrite_clients">write_clients</a> parameter, or if the <a href="postconf.5.html#remote_header_rewrite_domain">remote_header_rewrite_domain</a> config-
       uration parameter specifies a non-empty  value.  To  get  the  behavior
       before    Postfix    2.2,   specify   "<a href="postconf.5.html#local_header_rewrite_clients">local_header_rewrite_clients</a>   =
       <a href="DATABASE_README.html#types">static</a>:all".

       Typically, one would use the <a href="canonical.5.html"><b>canonical</b>(5)</a> table to replace login  names
       by <i>Firstname.Lastname</i>, or to clean up addresses produced by legacy mail
       systems.

       The <a href="canonical.5.html"><b>canonical</b>(5)</a> mapping is not to be confused with <i>virtual alias</i>  sup-
       port  or  with  local  aliasing.  To change the destination but not the
       headers, use the <a href="virtual.5.html"><b>virtual</b>(5)</a> or <a href="aliases.5.html"><b>aliases</b>(5)</a> map instead.

<b>CASE FOLDING</b>
       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 <a href="regexp_table.5.html">regexp</a>: or <a href="pcre_table.5.html">pcre</a>: whose lookup fields can match both  upper  and
       lower case.

<b>TABLE FORMAT</b>
       The input format for the <a href="postmap.1.html"><b>postmap</b>(1)</a> command is as follows:

       <i>pattern address</i>
              When  <i>pattern</i>  matches  a mail address, replace it by the corre-
              sponding <i>address</i>.

       blank lines and comments
              Empty lines and whitespace-only lines are ignored, as are  lines
              whose first non-whitespace character is a `#'.

       multi-line text
              A  logical  line  starts  with  non-whitespace text. A line that
              starts with whitespace continues a logical line.

<b>TABLE SEARCH ORDER</b>
       With lookups from indexed files such as DB or DBM,  or  from  networked
       tables  such  as  NIS,  LDAP  or SQL, each <i>user</i>@<i>domain</i> 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.

       <i>user</i>@<i>domain address</i>
              Replace <i>user</i>@<i>domain</i> by <i>address</i>. This form has the highest prece-
              dence.

              This is useful to clean up addresses  produced  by  legacy  mail
              systems.   It  can  also  be  used to produce <i>Firstname.Lastname</i>
              style addresses, but see below for a simpler solution.

       <i>user address</i>
              Replace <i>user</i>@<i>site</i> by <i>address</i> when <i>site</i> is  equal  to  $<b><a href="postconf.5.html#myorigin">myorigin</a></b>,
              when  <i>site</i>  is listed in $<b><a href="postconf.5.html#mydestination">mydestination</a></b>, or when it is listed in
              $<b><a href="postconf.5.html#inet_interfaces">inet_interfaces</a></b> or $<b><a href="postconf.5.html#proxy_interfaces">proxy_interfaces</a></b>.

              This form is useful for replacing login names by <i>Firstname.Last-</i>
              <i>name</i>.

       @<i>domain address</i>
              Replace other addresses in <i>domain</i> by <i>address</i>.  This form has the
              lowest precedence.

              Note: @<i>domain</i> is a wild-card.  When  this  form  is  applied  to
              recipient  addresses,  the  Postfix SMTP server accepts mail for
              any recipient in <i>domain</i>, 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.

              To avoid backscatter with mail for a wild-card  domain,  replace
              the  wild-card  mapping  with  explicit  1:1  mappings, or add a
              <a href="postconf.5.html#reject_unverified_recipient">reject_unverified_recipient</a> restriction for that domain:

                  <a href="postconf.5.html#smtpd_recipient_restrictions">smtpd_recipient_restrictions</a> =
                      ...
                      <a href="postconf.5.html#reject_unauth_destination">reject_unauth_destination</a>
                      <a href="postconf.5.html#check_recipient_access">check_recipient_access</a>
                          <a href="DATABASE_README.html#types">inline</a>:{example.com=<a href="postconf.5.html#reject_unverified_recipient">reject_unverified_recipient</a>}
                  <a href="postconf.5.html#unverified_recipient_reject_code">unverified_recipient_reject_code</a> = 550

              In the above example, Postfix may contact a remote server if the
              recipient is rewritten to a remote address.

<b>RESULT ADDRESS REWRITING</b>
       The lookup result is subject to address rewriting:

       <b>o</b>      When  the  result  has the form @<i>otherdomain</i>, the result becomes
              the same <i>user</i> in <i>otherdomain</i>.

       <b>o</b>      When "<b><a href="postconf.5.html#append_at_myorigin">append_at_myorigin</a>=yes</b>", append "<b>@$<a href="postconf.5.html#myorigin">myorigin</a></b>" to  addresses
              without "@domain".

       <b>o</b>      When "<b><a href="postconf.5.html#append_dot_mydomain">append_dot_mydomain</a>=yes</b>", append "<b>.$<a href="postconf.5.html#mydomain">mydomain</a></b>" to addresses
              without ".domain".

<b>ADDRESS EXTENSION</b>
       When a mail address localpart contains the optional recipient delimiter
       (e.g.,  <i>user+foo</i>@<i>domain</i>),  the  lookup  order becomes: <i>user+foo</i>@<i>domain</i>,
       <i>user</i>@<i>domain</i>, <i>user+foo</i>, <i>user</i>, and @<i>domain</i>.

       The  <b><a href="postconf.5.html#propagate_unmatched_extensions">propagate_unmatched_extensions</a></b>  parameter  controls   whether   an
       unmatched address extension (<i>+foo</i>) is propagated to the result of table
       lookup.

<b>REGULAR EXPRESSION TABLES</b>
       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 <a href="regexp_table.5.html"><b>regexp_table</b>(5)</a> or <a href="pcre_table.5.html"><b>pcre_table</b>(5)</a>.

       Each pattern is a regular expression that  is  applied  to  the  entire
       address  being looked up. Thus, <i>user@domain</i> mail addresses are not bro-
       ken up into their <i>user</i> and <i>@domain</i> constituent parts, nor  is  <i>user+foo</i>
       broken up into <i>user</i> and <i>foo</i>.

       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 interpo-
       lated as <b>$1</b>, <b>$2</b> and so on.

<b>TCP-BASED TABLES</b>
       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 <a href="tcp_table.5.html"><b>tcp_table</b>(5)</a>.  This feature  is  not
       available up to and including Postfix version 2.4.

       Each  lookup operation uses the entire address once.  Thus, <i>user@domain</i>
       mail addresses are not broken up  into  their  <i>user</i>  and  <i>@domain</i>  con-
       stituent parts, nor is <i>user+foo</i> broken up into <i>user</i> and <i>foo</i>.

       Results are the same as with indexed file lookups.

<b>BUGS</b>
       The table format does not understand quoting conventions.

<b>CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS</b>
       The  following  <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>main.cf</b></a>  parameters  are especially relevant.  The text
       below provides only a  parameter  summary.  See  <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>postconf</b>(5)</a>  for  more
       details including examples.

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#canonical_classes">canonical_classes</a>  (envelope_sender, envelope_recipient, header_sender,</b>
       <b>header_recipient)</b>
              What addresses are subject to <a href="postconf.5.html#canonical_maps">canonical_maps</a> address mapping.

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#canonical_maps">canonical_maps</a> (empty)</b>
              Optional  address  mapping lookup tables for message headers and
              envelopes.

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#recipient_canonical_maps">recipient_canonical_maps</a> (empty)</b>
              Optional address mapping lookup tables for envelope  and  header
              recipient addresses.

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#sender_canonical_maps">sender_canonical_maps</a> (empty)</b>
              Optional  address  mapping lookup tables for envelope and header
              sender addresses.

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#propagate_unmatched_extensions">propagate_unmatched_extensions</a> (canonical, virtual)</b>
              What address lookup tables copy an address  extension  from  the
              lookup key to the lookup result.

       Other parameters of interest:

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#inet_interfaces">inet_interfaces</a> (all)</b>
              The  network  interface addresses that this mail system receives
              mail on.

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#local_header_rewrite_clients">local_header_rewrite_clients</a> (<a href="postconf.5.html#permit_inet_interfaces">permit_inet_interfaces</a>)</b>
              Rewrite message header addresses in mail from these clients  and
              update incomplete addresses with the domain name in $<a href="postconf.5.html#myorigin">myorigin</a> or
              $<a href="postconf.5.html#mydomain">mydomain</a>; either  don't  rewrite  message  headers  from  other
              clients at all, or rewrite message headers and update incomplete
              addresses with the domain  specified  in  the  <a href="postconf.5.html#remote_header_rewrite_domain">remote_header_re</a>-
              <a href="postconf.5.html#remote_header_rewrite_domain">write_domain</a> parameter.

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#proxy_interfaces">proxy_interfaces</a> (empty)</b>
              The  network  interface addresses that this mail system receives
              mail on by way of a proxy or network address translation unit.

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#masquerade_classes">masquerade_classes</a> (envelope_sender, header_sender, header_recipient)</b>
              What addresses are subject to address masquerading.

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#masquerade_domains">masquerade_domains</a> (empty)</b>
              Optional list of  domains  whose  subdomain  structure  will  be
              stripped off in email addresses.

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#masquerade_exceptions">masquerade_exceptions</a> (empty)</b>
              Optional  list  of  user names that are not subjected to address
              masquerading,  even  when  their   addresses   match   $<a href="postconf.5.html#masquerade_domains">masquer</a>-
              <a href="postconf.5.html#masquerade_domains">ade_domains</a>.

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#mydestination">mydestination</a> ($<a href="postconf.5.html#myhostname">myhostname</a>, localhost.$<a href="postconf.5.html#mydomain">mydomain</a>, localhost)</b>
              The  list of domains that are delivered via the $<a href="postconf.5.html#local_transport">local_transport</a>
              mail delivery transport.

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#myorigin">myorigin</a> ($<a href="postconf.5.html#myhostname">myhostname</a>)</b>
              The domain name that locally-posted mail appears to  come  from,
              and that locally posted mail is delivered to.

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#owner_request_special">owner_request_special</a> (yes)</b>
              Enable  special  treatment  for  owner-<i>listname</i>  entries  in the
              <a href="aliases.5.html"><b>aliases</b>(5)</a>  file,  and  don't  split  owner-<i>listname</i>  and  <i>list-</i>
              <i>name</i>-request  address localparts when the <a href="postconf.5.html#recipient_delimiter">recipient_delimiter</a> is
              set to "-".

       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#remote_header_rewrite_domain">remote_header_rewrite_domain</a> (empty)</b>
              Don't rewrite message headers from remote clients  at  all  when
              this  parameter is empty; otherwise, rewrite message headers and
              append the specified domain name to incomplete addresses.

<b>SEE ALSO</b>
       <a href="cleanup.8.html">cleanup(8)</a>, canonicalize and enqueue mail
       <a href="postmap.1.html">postmap(1)</a>, Postfix lookup table manager
       <a href="postconf.5.html">postconf(5)</a>, configuration parameters
       <a href="virtual.5.html">virtual(5)</a>, virtual aliasing

<b>README FILES</b>
       <a href="DATABASE_README.html">DATABASE_README</a>, Postfix lookup table overview
       <a href="ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html">ADDRESS_REWRITING_README</a>, address rewriting guide

<b>LICENSE</b>
       The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software.

<b>AUTHOR(S)</b>
       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

                                                                  CANONICAL(5)
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