Every time I come to recreate the Postfix database file when I edit the file /etc/postfix/virtual.cf I forget what command I need to recreate virtual.cf.db
Hopefully I’ll check my blog next time. The command is postmap. Hope this is useful for someone else too!
postmap /etc/postfix/virtual.cf
/etc/init.d/postfix restart
How to create Postfix database files was posted on November 11, 2009 at 11:19 am in Linux and tagged as Email, irishblogs, Linux, postfix, postmap.
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6 Comments
Joe Jacobs (1 comments.) on November 11, 2009 at 11:47 am.
Funnily enough I do the same thing quite often as well. Guess I’ll just have to remember to check your blog next time!
Steve (2 comments.) on November 11, 2009 at 11:51 am.
It gets me every time too. I sit there thinking that I know I have to rebuild the hash files but I can never remember the command – probably because of its name, which although technically correct in that its to do with postfix map files, isn’t that obvious.
Donncha (1707 comments.) on November 11, 2009 at 12:32 pm.
Me too. I stared at the command prompt thinking it was “hash” something or other. It’s actually not that easy to find an answer either. I had to check more than a page or two to find postmap.
Not anymore eh?
Mihai Secasiu (2 comments.) on November 11, 2009 at 12:38 pm.
Editing the files and running postmap is fun
but webmin/virtualmin is faster and you don’t have to remember to postmap 
Geoff Kendal (1 comments.) on November 13, 2009 at 11:12 am.
I always forget this too… My solution was to just put a comment at the top of my virtual.cf file:
# postmap /etc/postfix/virtual.cf && /etc/init.d/postfix restart
So when I’ve finished editing, copy that line, save the file, paste onto the prompt… You don’t even have to look at your blog, it just there waiting for you!!
Julius Hyvoenen on April 3, 2012 at 7:37 pm.
How the hell am I supposed to remember the address for this blog next time I forget the same command? Some 5th or 6th googleing led me here.
But thanks anyway. At least you helped me this time.