On Sat, Aug 02, 2025 at 01:27:53PM +0200, Matteo Bini via Postfix-users wrote:
> Hello Postfix users,
> I have a very quick and easy question for you.
>
> Is it possible to use a texthash database for both alias_database and
> alias_maps parameters?
The correct setting would be:
# EMPTY! Since since texthash files are used directly, without
# building an external indexed table via "postalias" or "postmap"
alias_database =
# The format is that of any other texthash table, not that of
# aliases(5)!
alias_maps = texthash:${config_directory}/aliases.txt
> I tried writing
>
> alias_maps = texthash:/etc/aliases
This won't work unless you make a copy of the file with the ":" suffixes
removed from all the keys.
> However upon restart I got the following error.
>
> warning: /etc/aliases, line 8: record is in "key: value" format; is this an
> alias file?
As expected.
> Is there any of you who uses a texthash database for aliases? If yes,
> how?
The map has to be a standard key/value map. While the source file of
aliases(5) is normally "key: values...", the indexed files created by
postalias are not different from any other key/value indexed file, and
same must hold true for mysql, LDAP, texthash, ...
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