Madison Kelly wrote:
Hi all,
I am pretty sure I've done this before, but I am drawing a blank on
how I did it or even what commands I need. Missing the later makes it
hard to search. :P
I've got Postfix working using PostgreSQL as the backend on a small,
simple test database where I have a simple table called 'users' with a
column called 'usr_email' which holds, surprisingly, the user's email
address (ie: 'mkelly@xxxxxxxx').
To tell Postfix where the user's email inbox is (to write incoming
email to) I tell it to do this query:
SELECT
substring(usr_email FROM '@(.*)')||'/'||substring(usr_email FROM
'(.*)@')||'/inbox'
AS
email_file
FROM
users
WHERE
usr_email='mkelly@xxxxxxxx';
Which returns:
email_file
-------------------------
feneon.com/mkelly/inbox
Now I want to move to a more complex database where the email name
comes from 'users' -> 'usr_email' (ie: 'mkelly') and the domain suffix
comes from 'domains' -> 'dom_name' (ie: 'test.com').
The problem is, I am limited to how I can tell Postfix to generate the
query. Specifically, I can't (or don't know how to) tell Postfix to
create a join or split the email address. I can only tell Postfix what
table to query, what the SELECT field to use, and what column to do the
WHERE on.
So, my question,
Can I create a 'virtual table' table (or some such) that would take
something like?:
SELECT email_file FROM virtual_table WHERE email_addy='mkelly@xxxxxxxx';
Where the email_addy can be split to create this query:
SELECT
b.dom_name||'/'||a.usr_email||'/inbox'
AS
email_file
FROM
users a, domains b
WHERE
a.usr_dom_id=b.dom_id
AND
a.usr_email='mkelly'
AND
b.dom_name='test.com';
Which would still return:
email_file
--------------------------
alteeve.com/mkelly/inbox
I hope I got the question across well enough. :)
Thanks all!
Madi
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I got the answer from an Ian Peterson from the GTALUG. Thought I'd post
the answer here, "for the record".
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CREATE VIEW
email_file
AS SELECT
u.usr_email || '@' || d.dom_name
AS
email, d.dom_name || '/' || u.usr_email || '/inbox'
AS
file
FROM
users u
JOIN
domains d
ON
u.usr_dom_id=d.dom_id;
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Which allows the query:
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SELECT file FROM email_file WHERE email='mkelly@xxxxxxxx';
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To return:
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file
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test.com/mkelly/inbox
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Perfect! :)
Madi
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