Transport file

Sat Oct 16 00:03:39 IST 2004

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Brian Berglund wrote:
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  <div><span class="769465518-15102004"><font face="Arial" size="2">Can
the transport file of postfix be setup to read from a mysql database?<br>
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Yes transport_map = mysql:/path/to/database/file<br>
with the database file containing the arguments for connection etc to
the database.<br>
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  <div><span class="769465518-15102004"><font face="Arial" size="2">Like
if the database has a table with </font></span></div>
  <div><span class="769465518-15102004"><font face="Arial" size="2">domain
name and relay server</font></span></div>
  <div><span class="769465518-15102004"><font face="Arial" size="2">whatever.com,172.26.2.1</font></span></div>
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  <div><span class="769465518-15102004"><font face="Arial" size="2">Then
the transport would read from that and relay to the appropriate server?<br>
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Yup!<br>
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See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml">http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml</a> for examples (It's
not bad but written for Gentoo Linux) or for Postgre
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.postfix.org/PGSQL_README.html">http://www.postfix.org/PGSQL_README.html</a>. There are others, Google is
your friend! <br>
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HTH<br>
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Drew<br>
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