# VIRTUAL(5)                                             VIRTUAL(5)
# 
# NAME
#        virtual - format of Postfix virtual table
# 
# SYNOPSIS
#        postmap /usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual
# 
#        postmap -q "string" /usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual
# 
#        postmap -q - /usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual <inputfile
# 
# DESCRIPTION
#        The  optional virtual table specifies address redirections
#        for local and non-local recipients or domains.  The  redi-
#        rections  are  used by the cleanup(8) daemon. The redirec-
#        tions are recursive.
# 
#        The virtual redirection is applied only to recipient enve-
#        lope  addresses,  and  does  not  affect  message headers.
#        Think Sendmail rule set S0, if you like. Use  canonical(5)
#        mapping  to  rewrite header and envelope addresses in gen-
#        eral.
# 
#        Normally, the virtual 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  /usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual  in  order  to  rebuild  the
#        indexed file after changing the 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 expres-
#        sions.  In  that  case, the lookups are done in a slightly
#        different way as described below.
# 
# POSTFIX-STYLE VIRTUAL DOMAINS
#        With a Postfix-style virtual domain,  the  virtual  domain
#        has  its  own  user  name  space. Local (i.e. non-virtual)
#        usernames are  not  visible  in  a  Postfix-style  virtual
#        domain.  In particular, local aliases(5) and mailing lists
#        are not visible as localname@virtual.domain.
# 
#        Use a Sendmail-style virtual domain (see below)  if  local
#        usernames,  aliases(5)  or mailing lists should be visible
#        as localname@virtual.domain.
# 
#        Support for a Postfix-style virtual domain looks like:
# 
#        /usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual:
#            virtual.domain       anything (right-hand content does not matter)
#            postmaster@virtual.domain    postmaster
#            user1@virtual.domain address1
#            user2@virtual.domain address2, address3
# 
#        The virtual.domain anything entry is required for a  Post-
#        fix-style virtual domain.
# 
#        Do  not list a Postfix-style virtual domain in the main.cf
#        mydestination configuration parameter.  Such an  entry  is
#        required only for a Sendmail-style virtual domain.
# 
#        With  a  Postfix-style  virtual  domain,  the Postfix SMTP
#        server  accepts  mail  for  known-user@virtual.domain  and
#        rejects mail for unknown-user@virtual.domain as undeliver-
#        able.
# 
# SENDMAIL-STYLE VIRTUAL DOMAINS
#        With a Sendmail-style virtual domain,  every  local  (i.e.
#        non-virtual) username is visible in the virtual domain. In
#        particular, every local alias and mailing list is  visible
#        as localname@virtual.domain.
# 
#        Use  a  Postfix-style  virtual domain (see above) if local
#        usernames, aliases(5) or mailing lists should not be visi-
#        ble as localname@virtual.domain.
# 
#        Support for a Sendmail-style virtual domain looks like:
# 
#        /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf:
#            mydestination = $myhostname localhost.$mydomain $mydomain
#                virtual.domain
# 
#        /usr/local/etc/postfix/virtual:
#            user1@virtual.domain address1
#            user2@virtual.domain address2, address3
# 
#        The  main.cf  mydestination  entry is required for a Send-
#        mail-style virtual domain.
# 
#        Do not specify a virtual.domain anything virtual map entry
#        for  a  Sendmail-style  virtual  domain.  Such an entry is
#        required only with a Postfix-style virtual domain.
# 
#        With a Sendmail-style virtual domain,  the  Postfix  local
#        delivery  agent  delivers  mail  for  an unknown user@vir-
#        tual.domain to a local (i.e.  non-virtual) user  that  has
#        the  same  name;  if no such recipient exists, the Postfix
#        local delivery agent bounces the mail to the sender.
# 
# TABLE FORMAT
#        The format of the virtual table is  as  follows,  mappings
#        being tried in the order as listed in this manual page:
# 
#        pattern result
#               When  pattern matches a mail address, replace it by
#               the corresponding result.
# 
#        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 logi-
#               cal line.
# 
#        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 address, address, ...
#               Mail for  user@domain  is  redirected  to  address.
#               This form has the highest precedence.
# 
#        user address, address, ...
#               Mail  for  user@site  is redirected to address when
#               site is equal to $myorigin, when site is listed  in
#               $mydestination,   or   when   it   is   listed   in
#               $inet_interfaces.
# 
#               This functionality overlaps with  functionality  of
#               the  local  aliases(5)  database. The difference is
#               that virtual mapping can be  applied  to  non-local
#               addresses.
# 
#        @domain address, address, ...
#               Mail  for  any  user  in  domain  is  redirected to
#               address.  This form has the lowest precedence.
# 
#        In all the above forms, when address has the form  @other-
#        domain,  the result is the same user in otherdomain.  This
#        works for the first address in the expansion only.
# 
# 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.   An unmatched address extension (+foo) is propa-
#        gated to the result of table lookup.
# 
# REGULAR EXPRESSION TABLES
#        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 regexp_table(5) or pcre_table(5).
# 
#        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
#        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 interpolated as $1, $2 and so on.
# 
# BUGS
#        The  table format does not understand quoting conventions.
# 
# CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
#        The following main.cf parameters are  especially  relevant
#        to  this  topic.  See  the Postfix main.cf file for syntax
#        details and for default values.  Use  the  postfix  reload
#        command after a configuration change.
# 
#        virtual_maps
#               List of virtual mapping tables.
# 
#        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.
# 
#        owner_request_special
#               Give special treatment to owner-xxx and xxx-request
#               addresses.
# 
# SEE ALSO
#        cleanup(8) canonicalize and enqueue mail
#        postmap(1) create mapping table
#        pcre_table(5) format of PCRE tables
#        regexp_table(5) format of POSIX regular expression tables
# 
# 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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