1 <!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 2 "https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 3 <html> <head> 4 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 5 <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='postfix-doc.css'> 6 <title> Postfix manual - nisplus_table(5) </title> 7 </head> <body> <pre> 8 NISPLUS_TABLE(5) NISPLUS_TABLE(5) 9 10 <b><a name="name">NAME</a></b> 11 nisplus_table - Postfix NIS+ client 12 13 <b><a name="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></b> 14 <b>postmap -q "</b><i>string</i><b>" "<a href="nisplus_table.5.html">nisplus</a>:[</b><i>name</i><b>=%s];</b><i>name.name.</i><b>"</b> 15 16 <b>postmap -q - "<a href="nisplus_table.5.html">nisplus</a>:[</b><i>name</i><b>=%s];</b><i>name.name.</i><b>"</b> <<i>inputfile</i> 17 18 <b><a name="description">DESCRIPTION</a></b> 19 The Postfix mail system uses optional lookup tables. rewriting or mail 20 routing. These tables are usually in <b><a href="lmdb_table.5.html">lmdb</a>:</b>, <b><a href="CDB_README.html">cdb</a>:</b>, <b><a href="DATABASE_README.html#types">hash</a>:</b>, or <b><a href="DATABASE_README.html#types">dbm</a>:</b> for- 21 mat. 22 23 Alternatively, lookup tables can be specified as NIS+ databases. To 24 find out what types of lookup tables your Postfix system supports use 25 the "<b>postconf -m</b>" command. 26 27 To test Postfix NIS+ lookup tables, use the "<b>postmap -q</b>" command as 28 described in the SYNOPSIS above. 29 30 <b><a name="query_syntax">QUERY SYNTAX</a></b> 31 Most of the NIS+ query is specified via the NIS+ map name. The general 32 format of a Postfix NIS+ map name is as follows: 33 34 <b><a href="nisplus_table.5.html">nisplus</a>:[</b><i>name</i><b>=%s];</b><i>name.name.name</i><b>.:</b><i>column</i> 35 36 Postfix NIS+ map names differ from what one normally would use with 37 commands such as <b>niscat</b>: 38 39 <b>o</b> With each NIS+ table lookup, "<b>%s</b>" is replaced by a version of 40 the lookup string. There can be only one "<b>%s</b>" instance in a 41 Postfix NIS+ map name. 42 43 <b>o</b> Postfix NIS+ map names use "<b>;</b>" instead of "<b>,</b>", because the lat- 44 ter character is special in the Postfix <a href="postconf.5.html">main.cf</a> file. Postfix 45 replaces "<b>;</b>" characters in the map name by "<b>,</b>" before making 46 NIS+ queries. 47 48 <b>o</b> The ":<i>column</i>" part in the NIS+ map name is not part of the 49 actual NIS+ query. Instead, it specifies the number of the table 50 column that provides the lookup result. When no ":<i>column</i>" is 51 specified the first column (1) is used. 52 53 <b><a name="example">EXAMPLE</a></b> 54 A NIS+ aliases map might be queried as follows: 55 56 <a href="postconf.5.html#alias_maps">alias_maps</a> = <a href="DATABASE_README.html#types">dbm</a>:/etc/mail/aliases, 57 <a href="nisplus_table.5.html">nisplus</a>:[alias=%s];mail_aliases.org_dir.$<a href="postconf.5.html#mydomain">mydomain</a>.:1 58 59 This queries the local aliases file before the NIS+ file. 60 61 <b><a name="see_also">SEE ALSO</a></b> 62 <a href="postmap.1.html">postmap(1)</a>, Postfix lookup table manager 63 64 <b><a name="readme_files">README FILES</a></b> 65 <a href="DATABASE_README.html">DATABASE_README</a>, Postfix lookup table overview 66 67 <b><a name="license">LICENSE</a></b> 68 The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software. 69 70 <b>AUTHOR(S)</b> 71 Geoff Gibbs 72 UK-HGMP-RC 73 Hinxton 74 Cambridge 75 CB10 1SB, UK 76 77 Adopted and adapted by: 78 Wietse Venema 79 IBM T.J. Watson Research 80 P.O. Box 704 81 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA 82 83 Wietse Venema 84 Google, Inc. 85 111 8th Avenue 86 New York, NY 10011, USA 87 88 NISPLUS_TABLE(5) 89 </pre> </body> </html> 90
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