From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Mon Aug 01 2005 - 13:33:50 CDT

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On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 05:53:18PM +0200, Magnus B?ck wrote:

> On Monday, August 01, 2005 at 11:50 CEST,
> Tony Earnshaw <tonyebilly.demon.nl> wrote:
>
> > Having looked at the newaliases-style alias map, I understand that
> > it's differently formatted from other maps.
>
> Yes, local alias files in Postfix have this particular format, as
> documented in aliases(5). There is no reason to refer to this format as
> "newaliases-style". It simply is the official local alias file format
> for indexed maps. The fact that a database built with postmap(1) works
> is probably more of an implementation sideeffect rather than a behaviour
> that can be relied on.
>

I disagree. The "key: value" syntax is specifically the input format
for postalias(1) (aka sendmail -bi or newaliases). It is not an accident
that normal lookup "key" => get "value" semantics apply accross all
map types including "hash", "btree", "dbm", ...

The flat file syntax is for Sendmail compatibility, the table syntax is
key/value and supports LDAP, MySQL, ... with no evidence of "key:".

--
        Viktor.

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