>>>>> On April 13, 2022 Matus UHLAR <- fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk>> wrote:
>>>>>>> On April 10, 2022 Bill Cole >>>>>>> <postfixlists-070...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: >>> Right, because you do not need to run 'postmap' on regex or pcre maps. The >>> text >>> format ios what Postfix uses for those types. > On 12.04.22 23:06, Greg Klanderman wrote: >> Thank you Bill! Knowing that now, I see where postmap(1) states: >> >> | The postmap(1) command can query any supported file type, but it can >> | create only the following file types: >> | ... [types not including 'regexp' or 'pcre'] >> >> is getting at this, but it is far from clear that it is because >> those do not need to be pre-processed by postmap. >> >> Also, the error if you 'postmap regexp:filename' is not useful: >> >> postmap: fatal: unsupported dictionary type: regexp. Is the postfix-regexp >> package installed? >> >> given I know I have regexp installed. > regexp and postfix-regexp are two different things. > some SW distributions separate some map types to extra packages. > you also may not have postfix compiled with regexp map type, try running: > postconf -m Yes, 'postconf -m' includes regexp. As Bill wrote, you can't postmap a regexp: map type, as postfix reads the text format directly. I maintain that it would be a lot more useful if the error message stated something to that effect when you mistakenly try to do that. Greg
