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TRIVIAL-REWRITE(8postfix)                            TRIVIAL-REWRITE(8postfix)

NAME
       trivial-rewrite - Postfix address rewriting and resolving daemon

SYNOPSIS
       trivial-rewrite [generic Postfix daemon options]

DESCRIPTION
       The  trivial-rewrite(8)  daemon processes three types of client service
       requests:

       rewrite context address
              Rewrite an address to standard form, according  to  the  address
              rewriting context:

              local  Append  the domain names specified with $myorigin or $my-
                     domain to incomplete addresses; do swap_bangpath and  al-
                     low_percent_hack processing as described below, and strip
                     source  routed  addresses  (@site,@site:user@domain)   to
                     user@domain form.

              remote Append  the domain name specified with $remote_header_re-
                     write_domain to incomplete addresses. Otherwise  the  re-
                     sult  is identical to that of the local address rewriting
                     context. This prevents Postfix from appending  the  local
                     domain to spam from poorly written remote clients.

       resolve sender address
              Resolve  the address to a (transport, nexthop, recipient, flags)
              quadruple. 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 and optional delivery method informa-
                     tion.

              recipient
                     The envelope recipient address that is passed on to  nex-
                     thop.

              flags  The address class, whether the address requires relaying,
                     whether the address has problems, and whether the request
                     failed.

       verify sender address
              Resolve the address for address verification purposes.

SERVER PROCESS MANAGEMENT
       The  trivial-rewrite(8) servers run under control by the Postfix master
       server.  Each server  can  handle  multiple  simultaneous  connections.
       When all servers are busy while a client connects, the master creates a
       new server process, provided that the  trivial-rewrite  server  process
       limit  is  not  exceeded.  Each trivial-rewrite server terminates after
       serving at least $max_use clients of after $max_idle  seconds  of  idle
       time.

STANDARDS
       None. The command does not interact with the outside world.

SECURITY
       The  trivial-rewrite(8)  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) or postlogd(8).

CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
       On  busy  mail systems a long time may pass before a main.cf change af-
       fecting trivial-rewrite(8) is  picked  up.  Use  the  command  "postfix
       reload" to speed up a change.

       The  text  below provides only a parameter summary. See postconf(5) for
       more details including examples.

COMPATIBILITY CONTROLS
       resolve_dequoted_address (yes)
              Resolve a recipient address  safely  instead  of  correctly,  by
              looking inside quotes.

       Available with Postfix version 2.1 and later:

       resolve_null_domain (no)
              Resolve  an  address  that ends in the "@" null domain as if the
              local hostname were specified, instead of rejecting the  address
              as invalid.

       Available with Postfix version 2.3 and later:

       resolve_numeric_domain (no)
              Resolve  "user@ipaddress"  as "user@[ipaddress]", instead of re-
              jecting the address as invalid.

       Available with Postfix version 2.5 and later:

       allow_min_user (no)
              Allow a sender or recipient address to have  `-'  as  the  first
              character.

ADDRESS REWRITING CONTROLS
       myorigin ($myhostname)
              The  domain  name that locally-posted mail appears to come from,
              and that locally posted mail is delivered to.

       allow_percent_hack (yes)
              Enable the rewriting of the form "user%domain" to "user@domain".

       append_at_myorigin (yes)
              With locally submitted mail, append the string  "@$myorigin"  to
              mail addresses without domain information.

       append_dot_mydomain (Postfix >= 3.0: no, Postfix < 3.0: yes)
              With  locally  submitted mail, append the string ".$mydomain" to
              addresses that have no ".domain" information.

       recipient_delimiter (empty)
              The set of characters that can separate a user name from its ex-
              tension  (example:  user+foo),  or a .forward file name from its
              extension (example: .forward+foo).

       swap_bangpath (yes)
              Enable the rewriting of "site!user" into "user@site".

       Available in Postfix 2.2 and later:

       remote_header_rewrite_domain (empty)
              Don't rewrite message headers from remote clients  at  all  when
              this  parameter is empty; otherwise, rewrite message headers and
              append the specified domain name to incomplete addresses.

ROUTING CONTROLS
       The following is applicable to Postfix version 2.0 and later.   Earlier
       versions  do  not have support for: virtual_transport, relay_transport,
       virtual_alias_domains, virtual_mailbox_domains or proxy_interfaces.

       local_transport (local:$myhostname)
              The default mail delivery transport and next-hop destination for
              final  delivery  to  domains  listed with mydestination, and for
              [ipaddress]  destinations   that   match   $inet_interfaces   or
              $proxy_interfaces.

       virtual_transport (virtual)
              The default mail delivery transport and next-hop destination for
              final delivery to domains listed with $virtual_mailbox_domains.

       relay_transport (relay)
              The default mail delivery transport and next-hop destination for
              remote delivery to domains listed with $relay_domains.

       default_transport (smtp)
              The default mail delivery transport and next-hop destination for
              destinations that do not match $mydestination, $inet_interfaces,
              $proxy_interfaces,  $virtual_alias_domains, $virtual_mailbox_do-
              mains, or $relay_domains.

       parent_domain_matches_subdomains (see 'postconf -d' output)
              A list of Postfix features where the pattern "example.com"  also
              matches  subdomains  of example.com, instead of requiring an ex-
              plicit ".example.com" pattern.

       relayhost (empty)
              The next-hop destination of non-local mail; overrides  non-local
              domains in recipient addresses.

       transport_maps (empty)
              Optional  lookup  tables with mappings from recipient address to
              (message delivery transport, next-hop destination).

       Available in Postfix version 2.3 and later:

       sender_dependent_relayhost_maps (empty)
              A sender-dependent override for the global  relayhost  parameter
              setting.

       Available in Postfix version 2.5 and later:

       empty_address_relayhost_maps_lookup_key (<>)
              The  sender_dependent_relayhost_maps  search string that will be
              used instead of the null sender address.

       Available in Postfix version 2.7 and later:

       empty_address_default_transport_maps_lookup_key (<>)
              The sender_dependent_default_transport_maps search  string  that
              will be used instead of the null sender address.

       sender_dependent_default_transport_maps (empty)
              A sender-dependent override for the global default_transport pa-
              rameter setting.

ADDRESS VERIFICATION CONTROLS
       Postfix version 2.1 introduces sender and recipient  address  verifica-
       tion.  This feature is implemented by sending probe email messages that
       are not actually delivered.  By default,  address  verification  probes
       use  the  same  route  as regular mail. To override specific aspects of
       message routing for address verification probes, specify one or more of
       the following:

       address_verify_local_transport ($local_transport)
              Overrides the local_transport parameter setting for address ver-
              ification probes.

       address_verify_virtual_transport ($virtual_transport)
              Overrides the virtual_transport parameter  setting  for  address
              verification probes.

       address_verify_relay_transport ($relay_transport)
              Overrides the relay_transport parameter setting for address ver-
              ification probes.

       address_verify_default_transport ($default_transport)
              Overrides the default_transport parameter  setting  for  address
              verification probes.

       address_verify_relayhost ($relayhost)
              Overrides  the relayhost parameter setting for address verifica-
              tion probes.

       address_verify_transport_maps ($transport_maps)
              Overrides the transport_maps parameter setting for address veri-
              fication probes.

       Available in Postfix version 2.3 and later:

       address_verify_sender_dependent_relayhost_maps   ($sender_dependent_re-
       layhost_maps)
              Overrides the sender_dependent_relayhost_maps parameter  setting
              for address verification probes.

       Available in Postfix version 2.7 and later:

       address_verify_sender_dependent_default_transport_maps  ($sender_depen-
       dent_default_transport_maps)
              Overrides the sender_dependent_default_transport_maps  parameter
              setting for address verification probes.

MISCELLANEOUS CONTROLS
       config_directory (see 'postconf -d' output)
              The  default  location of the Postfix main.cf and master.cf con-
              figuration files.

       daemon_timeout (18000s)
              How much time a Postfix daemon process may take to handle a  re-
              quest before it is terminated by a built-in watchdog timer.

       empty_address_recipient (MAILER-DAEMON)
              The recipient of mail addressed to the null address.

       ipc_timeout (3600s)
              The  time limit for sending or receiving information over an in-
              ternal communication channel.

       max_idle (100s)
              The maximum amount of time that an idle Postfix  daemon  process
              waits for an incoming connection before terminating voluntarily.

       max_use (100)
              The maximal number of incoming connections that a Postfix daemon
              process will service before terminating voluntarily.

       relocated_maps (empty)
              Optional lookup tables with new contact information for users or
              domains that no longer exist.

       process_id (read-only)
              The process ID of a Postfix command or daemon process.

       process_name (read-only)
              The process name of a Postfix command or daemon process.

       queue_directory (see 'postconf -d' output)
              The location of the Postfix top-level queue directory.

       show_user_unknown_table_name (yes)
              Display  the  name  of the recipient table in the "User unknown"
              responses.

       syslog_facility (mail)
              The syslog facility of Postfix logging.

       syslog_name (see 'postconf -d' output)
              A prefix that  is  prepended  to  the  process  name  in  syslog
              records, so that, for example, "smtpd" becomes "prefix/smtpd".

       Available in Postfix version 2.0 and later:

       helpful_warnings (yes)
              Log  warnings about problematic configuration settings, and pro-
              vide helpful suggestions.

       Available in Postfix 3.3 and later:

       service_name (read-only)
              The master.cf service name of a Postfix daemon process.

SEE ALSO
       postconf(5), configuration parameters
       transport(5), transport table format
       relocated(5), format of the "user has moved" table
       master(8), process manager
       postlogd(8), Postfix logging
       syslogd(8), system logging

README FILES
       Use "postconf readme_directory" or "postconf html_directory" to  locate
       this information.
       ADDRESS_CLASS_README, Postfix address classes howto
       ADDRESS_VERIFICATION_README, Postfix address verification

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

       Wietse Venema
       Google, Inc.
       111 8th Avenue
       New York, NY 10011, USA

                                                     TRIVIAL-REWRITE(8postfix)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | SERVER PROCESS MANAGEMENT | STANDARDS | SECURITY | DIAGNOSTICS | CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS | COMPATIBILITY CONTROLS | ADDRESS REWRITING CONTROLS | ROUTING CONTROLS | ADDRESS VERIFICATION CONTROLS | MISCELLANEOUS CONTROLS | SEE ALSO | README FILES | LICENSE | AUTHOR(S)