> On Oct 26, 2020, at 1:43 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
>
>> A suffix looks like a good solution to me.
>
> On second consideration, I think I'll go for "uid:".
Yes, indeed ":" is the natural suffix, or prefix. But, when
used as a suffix, postmap issues a warnings about needing
to run it as postalias on files that look like aliases(5)
files:
$ cat /tmp/xyzzy
12345: a...@example.com
$ postmap btree:/tmp/xyzzy
postmap: warning: /tmp/xyzzy, line 1: record is in "key: value" format;
is this an alias file?
And does not complain when the key is ":12345", so the prefix
form is likely better...
--
Viktor.
