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NAME
       relocated - Postfix relocated table format

SYNOPSIS
       postmap /etc/postfix/relocated

DESCRIPTION
       The  optional  relocated(5) table provides the information
       that is used in "user has moved  to  new_location"  bounce
       messages.

       Normally,  the  relocated(5)  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/relocated"  to  rebuild  an indexed
       file after changing the corresponding relocated 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  regular-
       expression map where patterns are given as regular expres-
       sions, 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".

       Table lookups are case insensitive.

CASE FOLDING
       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
       The input format for the postmap(1) command is as follows:

       o      An entry has one of the following form:

                   pattern      new_location

              Where  new_location  specifies  contact information
              such as an  email  address,  or  perhaps  a  street
              address or telephone number.

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

       o      A  logical  line starts with non-whitespace text. A
              line that starts with whitespace continues a  logi-
              cal line.

TABLE SEARCH ORDER
       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:

       user@domain
              Matches  user@domain. This form has precedence over
              all other forms.

       user   Matches user@site when site is $myorigin, when site
              is listed in $mydestination, or when site is listed
              in $inet_interfaces or $proxy_interfaces.

       @domain
              Matches other addresses in domain.  This  form  has
              the lowest precedence.

ADDRESS EXTENSION
       When a mail address localpart contains the optional recip-
       ient delimiter (e.g., user+foo@domain), the  lookup  order
       becomes: user+foo@domain, user@domain, user+foo, user, and
       @domain.

REGULAR EXPRESSION TABLES
       This section describes how the table lookups  change  when
       the  table  is given in the form of regular expressions or
       when lookups are directed to a  TCP-based  server.  For  a
       description of regular expression lookup table syntax, see
       regexp_table(5) or pcre_table(5). For a description of the
       TCP client/server table lookup protocol, see tcp_table(5).
       This feature is not available up to and including  Postfix
       version 2.4.

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

       Patterns  are applied in the order as specified in the ta-
       ble, 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 $1, $2 and so on.

TCP-BASED TABLES
       This  section  describes how the table lookups change when
       lookups are directed to a TCP-based server. For a descrip-
       tion of the TCP client/server lookup protocol, see tcp_ta-
       ble(5).  This feature is not available up to and including
       Postfix version 2.4.

       Each lookup operation uses the entire address once.  Thus,
       user@domain mail addresses are not broken  up  into  their
       user and @domain constituent parts, nor is user+foo broken
       up into user and foo.

       Results are the same as with indexed file lookups.

BUGS
       The table format does not understand quoting  conventions.

CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
       The  following main.cf parameters are especially relevant.
       The text below provides  only  a  parameter  summary.  See
       postconf(5) for more details including examples.

       relocated_maps
              List of lookup tables for relocated users or sites.

       Other parameters of interest:

       inet_interfaces
              The network interface addresses  that  this  system
              receives mail on.  You need to stop and start Post-
              fix when this parameter changes.

       mydestination
              List of domains that  this  mail  system  considers
              local.

       myorigin
              The domain that is appended to locally-posted mail.

       proxy_interfaces
              Other interfaces that this machine receives mail on
              by way of a proxy agent or network address transla-
              tor.

SEE ALSO
       trivial-rewrite(8), address resolver
       postmap(1), Postfix lookup table manager
       postconf(5), configuration parameters

README FILES
       DATABASE_README, Postfix lookup table overview
       ADDRESS_REWRITING_README, address rewriting guide

LICENSE
       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

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