Devin L. Ganger wrote:

>If you're using a hash, btree, or dbm file, you should not have to
>re-load Postfix; it will notice that the file has changed.

>Also check out the manpage for postmap -- it can be told to add an entry
>to an existing map, so you can call it from a script.

These two factlets on their own have solved my problem! I had overlooked
the second due to my ignorance of the first.

Now, I can easily include calls to postmap into my script to
insert/remove/query the entries in my .db file.

Just in case it's of any interest to anyone, here are the relevant commands,
they just need tweaking for your alias/filename:
(with apologies to the owners of qwerty.com)

Converting an alias pattern to its result
postmap -q newaliasqwerty.com /etc/postfix/qwerty.com.virtual

Removing an alias
postmap -d newaliasqwerty.com /etc/postfix/qwerty.com.virtual

Adding an alias
echo "newaliasqwerty.com jack" | postmap -i
/etc/postfix/qwerty.com.virtual

So, these commands just need to be passed to the OS from the cgi
application.
And, if my understanding is correct, this will even cover the locking
required for
multiple simultaneous updates.

Thanks to everyone for your help!

Jack

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