On 8/30/07, Madison Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am pretty sure I've done this before, but I am drawing a blank on > how I did it or even what commands I need. Missing the later makes it > hard to search. :P > > I've got Postfix working using PostgreSQL as the backend on a small, > simple test database where I have a simple table called 'users' with a > column called 'usr_email' which holds, surprisingly, the user's email > address (ie: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'). > > To tell Postfix where the user's email inbox is (to write incoming > email to) I tell it to do this query: > > SELECT > substring(usr_email FROM '@(.*)')||'/'||substring(usr_email FROM > '(.*)@')||'/inbox'
> The problem is, I am limited to how I can tell Postfix to generate > the query. Specifically, I can't (or don't know how to) tell Postfix to > create a join or split the email address. I can only tell Postfix what > table to query, what the SELECT field to use, and what column to do the > WHERE on. I seem to recall giving out a query about that in the IRC channel a while back...so if you got it from me, now I'll attempt to finish the job :-). If you can get postfix to look at a view, maybe you could CREATE VIEW email_v AS SELECT usr_email, dom_name, b.dom_name||'/'||a.usr_email||'/inbox' AS email_file FROM users a, domains b WHERE a.usr_dom_id=b.dom_id; AND a.usr_email='mkelly' AND b.dom_name='test.com'; and just select * from email_v where usr_email = 'mkelly' and dom_name = 'test.com'; merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly