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NAME
trivial-rewrite - Postfix address rewriting and resolving
daemon
SYNOPSIS
trivial-rewrite [generic Postfix daemon options]
DESCRIPTION
The trivial-rewrite daemon processes two types of client
service requests:
rewrite
Rewrite an address to standard form. The trivialrewrite
daemon by default appends local domain
information to unqualified addresses, swaps bang
paths to domain form, and strips source routing
information. This process is under control of several
configuration parameters (see below).
resolve
Resolve an address to a (transport, nexthop, recipient)
triple. The meaning of the results is as follows:
transport
The delivery agent to use. This is the first
field of an entry in the master.cf file.
nexthop
The host to send to. For local delivery this
is an empty string.
recipient
The envelope recipient address that is
passed on to nexthop.
The trivial-rewrite daemon by default only distinguishes
between local and non-local mail. For finer
control over mail routing, use the optional transport(5)
lookup table.
This program expects to be run from the master(8) process
manager.
STANDARDS
None. The command does not interact with the outside
world.
SECURITY
The trivial-rewrite daemon is not security sensitive. By
default, this daemon does not talk to remote or local
users. It can run at a fixed low privilege in a chrooted
environment.
DIAGNOSTICS
Problems and transactions are logged to syslogd(8).
BUGS
CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
The following main.cf parameters are especially relevant
to this program. See the Postfix main.cf file for syntax
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