Jan Marek via Postfix-users:

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> Hello,
> 
> Dne ?t, srp 28, 2025 at 02:43:59 CEST napsal(a) Markus Sch?nhaber via 
> Postfix-users:
> > 28.08.25, 14:20 +0200, Jan Marek via Postfix-users:
> > 
> > > But why `postmap -q` don't reply?
> > 
> > >From man postmap(1):
> > 
> > | -q key Search the specified maps for key and write the first value
> > |    found to the standard output stream. The exit status is zero when
> > |    the requested information was found.
> > |
> > |        Note:  this  performs  a  single  query with the key as
> > |        specified, and does not make iterative queries with substrings
> > |        of the key as described for access(5), canonical(5),
> > |        transport(5), virtual(5) and other Postfix table-driven
> > |        features.
> 
> it's quite confusing:
> 
> /etc/postfix/virtual:
> 
> [email protected] account1
> [email protected] account2
> @virtual.domain other_account
> 
> postmap -q [email protected] hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
> account1
> 
> postmap -q [email protected] hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
> 
> (nothink and exit status of 1)

For many people the following is clear: 

- postmap is not virtual_alias_maps.

- virtual_alias_maps does the substring lookups. That
is documented.

- postmap does not. The documentation describes only what
postmap does.

        Wietse
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