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TABLE(5)		       File Formats Manual			TABLE(5)

NAME
     table -- format description for smtpd tables

DESCRIPTION
     This  manual  page documents the file format for the various tables used in
     the smtpd(8) mail daemon.

     The format described here applies to tables as defined in smtpd.conf(5).

TABLE TYPES
     There are two types of tables: lists and mappings.  A list  consists  of  a
     series  of  values,  while a mapping consists of a series of keys and their
     associated values.  The following illustrates how to declare them as static
     tables:

	   table mylist { value1, value2, value3 }
	   table mymapping { key1 = value1, key2 = value2, key3 = value3 }

     When using a `file' table, a list will be written with each value on a line
     by itself.

	   value1
	   value2
	   value3

     A mapping will be written with each key and value on a line, whitespace and
     an optional colon separating both columns:

	   key1:   value1
	   key2    value2
	   key3    value3

     Blank lines, leading and trailing spaces and tabs are ignored.  Lines whose
     first non-space character is a hash mark (`#') are  comments  and	are  ig-
     nored.   To  force the parsing of a file table as a list rather than a map-
     ping, use this special comment:

	   # @list

     A file table can be converted to a Berkeley database using  the  makemap(8)
     utility with no syntax change.

     Tables using a `file' or Berkeley DB backend will be referenced as follows:

	   table name file:/path/to/file
	   table name db:/path/to/file.db

   Aliasing tables
     Aliasing tables are mappings that associate a recipient to one or many des-
     tinations.   They	can  be used in two contexts: primary domain aliases and
     virtual domain mapping.

	   action name method alias <table>
	   action name method virtual <table>

     In a primary domain context, the key is the user part of the recipient  ad-
     dress,  whilst  the  value  is  one  or  many  recipients	as  described in
     aliases(5):

	   user1   otheruser
	   user2   otheruser1,otheruser2
	   user3   otheruser@example.com

     In a virtual domain context, the key is either a user part,  a  full  email
     address   or   a	catch-all,   following	 selection  rules  described  in
     smtpd.conf(5), and the value is one or  many  recipients  as  described  in
     aliases(5):

	   user1		   otheruser
	   user2@example.org	   otheruser1,otheruser2
	   @example.org 	   otheruser@example.com
	   @			   catchall@example.com

     The  following directive shares the same table format, but with a different
     meaning.  Here, the user is allowed to send mail from the listed addresses:

	   listen on interface auth [...] senders <table>

   Domain tables
     Domain tables are simple lists of domains or hosts.

	   match for domain <table> action name
	   match helo <table> [...] action name

     In that context, the list of domains will be matched against the  recipient
     domain  or  against  the  HELO name advertised by the sending host, respec-
     tively.  For `static', `file' and dbopen(3) backends,  a  wildcard  may  be
     used so the domain table may contain:

	   example.org
	   *.example.org

   Credentials tables
     Credentials  tables  are  mappings of credentials.  They can be used in two
     contexts:

	   listen on interface tls [...] auth <table>
	   action name relay host relay-url auth <table>

     In a listener context, the credentials are a mapping of  username	and  en-
     crypted passwords:

	   user1   $2b$10$hIJ4QfMcp.90nJwKqGbKM.MybArjHOTpEtoTV.DgLYAiThuoYmTSe
	   user2   $2b$10$bwSmUOBGcZGamIfRuXGTvuTo3VLbPG9k5yeKNMBtULBhksV5KdGsK

     The passwords are to be encrypted using the smtpctl(8) encrypt subcommand.

     In  a  relay  context,  the  credentials  are a mapping of labels and user-
     name:password pairs:

	   label1  user:password

     The label must be unique and is used as a selector for the  proper  creden-
     tials  when  multiple  credentials are valid for a single destination.  The
     password is not encrypted as it must be provided to the remote host.

   Netaddr tables
     Netaddr tables are lists of IPv4 and IPv6 network addresses.  They can only
     be used in the following context:

	   match from src <table> action name

     When used as a "from source", the address of a client is  compared  to  the
     list of addresses in the table until a match is found.

     A	netaddr table can contain exact addresses or netmasks, and looks as fol-
     low:

	   192.168.1.1
	   [::1]
	   192.168.1.0/24

     IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in square brackets.

   Userinfo tables
     Userinfo tables are used in rule context to specify an alternate  userbase,
     mapping virtual users to local system users by UID, GID and home directory.

	   action name method userbase <table>

     A userinfo table looks as follows:

	   joe	   1000:100:/home/virtual/joe
	   jack    1000:100:/home/virtual/jack

     In  this  example,  both joe and jack are virtual users mapped to the local
     system user with UID 1000 and GID	100,  but  different  home  directories.
     These  directories may contain a forward(5) file.	This can be used in con-
     junction with an alias table that maps an email address or the domain  part
     to the desired virtual username.  For example:

	   joe@example.org     joe
	   jack@example.com    jack

   Source tables
     Source  tables are lists of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.  They can only be used
     in the following context:

	   action name relay src <table>

     Successive queries to the source table will return the elements one by one.

     A source table looks as follow:

	   192.168.1.2
	   192.168.1.3
	   [::1]
	   [::2]

     IPv6 address must be enclosed in square brackets.

   Mailaddr tables
     Mailaddr tables are lists of email addresses.  They can be used in the fol-
     lowing contexts:

	   match mail-from <table> action name
	   match rcpt-to <table> action name

     A mailaddr entry is used to match an email address against  a  username,  a
     domain  or a full email address.  A "*" wildcard may be used in part of the
     domain name.

     A mailaddr table looks as follow:

	   user
	   @domain
	   user@domain
	   user@*.domain

   Addrname tables
     Addrname tables are used to map IP addresses to  hostnames.   They  can  be
     used in both listen context and relay context:

	   listen on interface hostnames <table>
	   action name relay helo-src <table>

     In  listen  context, the table is used to look up the server name to adver-
     tise depending on the local address of the socket on which a connection  is
     accepted.	 In  relay  context, the table is used to determine the hostname
     for the HELO sequence of the SMTP protocol, depending on the local  address
     used for the outgoing connection.

     The format is a mapping from inet4 or inet6 addresses to hostnames:

	   [::1]	   localhost
	   127.0.0.1	   localhost
	   88.190.23.165   www.opensmtpd.org

     IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in square brackets.

SEE ALSO
     smtpd.conf(5), makemap(8), smtpd(8)

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