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TRANSPORT(5)
TRANSPORT(5)
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NAME
transport - format of Postfix transport table
SYNOPSIS
postmap /etc/postfix/transport
DESCRIPTION
The optional transport table specifies a mapping from
domain hierarchies to message delivery transports and/or
relay hosts. The mapping is used by the trivial-rewrite(8)
daemon.
Normally, the transport 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/transport in order to rebuild the
indexed file after changing the transport 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 regularexpression
map where patterns are given as regular expressions.
In that case, the lookups are done in a slightly
different way as described below.
TABLE FORMAT
The format of the transport table is as follows:
blanks and comments
Blank lines are ignored, as are lines beginning
with `#'.
leading whitespace
Lines that begin with whitespace continue the previous
line.
pattern result
When pattern matches the domain, use the corresponding
result.
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:
domain transport:nexthop
Mail for domain is delivered through transport to
nexthop.
.domain transport:nexthop
Mail for any subdomain of domain
through transport to nexthop.
is delivered
Note: transport map entries take precedence over domains
specified in the mydestination parameter. If you use the
optional transport map, it may be safer to specify
explicit entries for all domains specified in mydestination,
for example:
http://www.porcupine.org/postfix-mirror/transport.5.html
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