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cdb database.8

Manvendra Bhangui edited this page Feb 8, 2023 · 5 revisions

NAME

cdb-database - prepare cdb assignments for ctrlenv

SYNOPSIS

cdb-database filename

DESCRIPTION

cdb-database reads the assignments in /etc/indimail/control/filename and writes them into /etc/indimail/control/filename.cdb in a binary format suited for quick access by ctrlenv. Extra arguments provided after filename are silently ignored.

If there is a problem with /etc/indimail/control/filename, cdb-database complains and leaves /etc/indimail/control/filename.cdb alone.

cdb-database ensures that /etc/indimail/control/filename.cdb is updated atomically, so ctrlenv never has to wait for cdb-database to finish. However, cdb-database makes no attempt to protect against two simultaneous updates of /etc/indimail/control/filename.cdb.

The binary /etc/indimail/control/filename.cdb format is portable across machines.

/etc/indimail/control/filename is a series of assignments, one per line. It ends with a line containing a single dot. Lines must not contain NUL.

Lines in /etc/indimail/control/filename consists of address separated by value

=joe.shmoe@indimail.org:DKIMSIGN=/etc/indimail/control/domainkeys/joe:

When ctrlenv is run against this file using address joe.shmoe@indimail.org, DKIMSIGN will be set to /etc/indimail/control/domainkeys/joe

SIMPLE ASSIGNMENTS

A simple assignment is a line of the form

=local:value:

Here local is an address; value is the value of environment variable that ctrlenv will set when it finds a match for address local.

If there are several assignments for the same local address, ctrlenv will use the first one.

local is interpreted without regard to case.

WILDCARD ASSIGNMENTS

A wildcard assignment is a line of the form

+loc:value:

This assignment applies to any address beginning with loc, including loc itself. It means the same as

=locext:value:

for every string ext .

A more specific wildcard assignment overrides a less specific assignment, and a simple assignment overrides any wildcard assignment. For example:

+:/etc/indimail/control/domainkeys/%/default:
+joe-:/etc/indimail/control/domainkeys/indimail.org/joe:
=joe:/etc/indimail/control/domainkeys/example.com/joe:

The address joe is handled by the third line; the address joe-direct is handled by the second line; the address bill is handled by the first line.

SEE ALSO

ctrlenv(8)

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