<html> <head> </head> <body> <pre> POSTALIAS(1) POSTALIAS(1) <b>NAME</b> postalias - Postfix alias database maintenance <b>SYNOPSIS</b> <b>postalias</b> [<b>-Nfinorvw</b>] [<b>-c</b> <i>config_dir</i>] [<b>-d</b> <i>key</i>] [<b>-q</b> <i>key</i>] [<i>file_type</i>:]<i>file_name</i> ... <b>DESCRIPTION</b> The <b>postalias</b> command creates or queries one or more Post- fix alias databases, or updates an existing one. The input and output file formats are expected to be compatible with Sendmail version 8, and are expected to be suitable for the use as NIS alias maps. If the result files do not exist they will be created with the same group and other read permissions as the source file. While a database update is in progress, signal delivery is postponed, and an exclusive, advisory, lock is placed on the entire database, in order to avoid surprises in spec- tator programs. Options: <b>-N</b> Include the terminating null character that termi- nates lookup keys and values. By default, Postfix does whatever is the default for the host operating system. <b>-c</b> <i>config_dir</i> Read the <b>main.cf</b> configuration file in the named directory instead of the default configuration directory. <b>-d</b> <i>key</i> Search the specified maps for <i>key</i> and remove one entry per map. The exit status is zero when the requested information was found. If a key value of <b>-</b> 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. <b>-f</b> Do not fold the lookup key to lower case while cre- ating or querying a map. <b>-i</b> Incremental mode. Read entries from standard input and do not truncate an existing database. By default, <b>postalias</b> creates a new database from the entries in <i>file_name</i>. <b>-n</b> Don't include the terminating null character that terminates lookup keys and values. By default, Postfix does whatever is the default for the host operating system. <b>-o</b> Do not release root privileges when processing a non-root input file. By default, <b>postalias</b> drops root privileges and runs as the source file owner instead. <b>-q</b> <i>key</i> Search the specified maps for <i>key</i> and print the first value found on the standard output stream. The exit status is zero when the requested informa- tion was found. If a key value of <b>-</b> is specified, the program reads key values from the standard input stream and prints one line of <i>key:</i> <i>value</i> output for each key that was found. The exit status is zero when at least one of the requested keys was found. <b>-r</b> When updating a table, do not warn about duplicate entries; silently replace them. <b>-v</b> Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Mul- tiple <b>-v</b> options make the software increasingly verbose. <b>-w</b> When updating a table, do not warn about duplicate entries; silently ignore them. Arguments: <i>file_type</i> The type of database to be produced. <b>btree</b> The output is a btree file, named <i>file_name</i><b>.db</b>. This is available only on systems with support for <b>db</b> databases. <b>dbm</b> The output consists of two files, named <i>file_name</i><b>.pag</b> and <i>file_name</i><b>.dir</b>. This is available only on systems with support for <b>dbm</b> databases. <b>hash</b> The output is a hashed file, named <i>file_name</i><b>.db</b>. This is available only on systems with support for <b>db</b> databases. Use the command <b>postconf</b> <b>-m</b> to find out what types of database your Postfix installation can support. When no <i>file_type</i> is specified, the software uses the database type specified via the <b>default</b><i>_</i><b>database</b><i>_</i><b>type</b> configuration parameter. The default value for this parameter depends on the host environment. <i>file_name</i> The name of the alias database source file when creating a database. <b>DIAGNOSTICS</b> Problems are logged to the standard error stream. No out- put means no problems were detected. Duplicate entries are skipped and are flagged with a warning. <b>postalias</b> terminates with zero exit status in case of suc- cess (including successful <b>postalias</b> <b>-q</b> lookup) and termi- nates with non-zero exit status in case of failure. <b>ENVIRONMENT</b> <b>MAIL</b><i>_</i><b>CONFIG</b> Directory with Postfix configuration files. <b>MAIL</b><i>_</i><b>VERBOSE</b> Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. <b>CONFIGURATION</b> <b>PARAMETERS</b> The following <b>main.cf</b> parameters are especially relevant to this program. See the Postfix <b>main.cf</b> file for syntax details and for default values. <b>default</b><i>_</i><b>database</b><i>_</i><b>type</b> Default database type. On many UNIX systems, the default type is either <b>dbm</b> or <b>hash</b>. <b>berkeley</b><i>_</i><b>db</b><i>_</i><b>create</b><i>_</i><b>buffer</b><i>_</i><b>size</b> Amount of buffer memory to be used when creating a Berkeley DB <b>hash</b> or <b>btree</b> lookup table. <b>berkeley</b><i>_</i><b>db</b><i>_</i><b>read</b><i>_</i><b>buffer</b><i>_</i><b>size</b> Amount of buffer memory to be used when reading a Berkeley DB <b>hash</b> or <b>btree</b> lookup table. <b>STANDARDS</b> <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html">RFC 822</a> (ARPA Internet Text Messages) <b>SEE</b> <b>ALSO</b> <a href="aliases.5.html">aliases(5)</a> format of alias database input file. <a href="sendmail.1.html">sendmail(1)</a> mail posting and compatibility interface. <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 POSTALIAS(1) </pre> </body> </html>