# Postfix Manual Pages

## Information for new Postfix users

New Postfix users should first look at the following introductory documents. These introductions are hyperlinked to more advanced documents and to UNIX-style manual pages. The UNIX-style manual pages are intended for people who are already familiar with Postfix.

- Postfix architecture overview
- Basic configuration
- Trouble shooting
- Content inspection overview
- Relay/access control overview
- Lookup table overview

## Postfix manual page organization

Each Postfix manual page is numbered after a section of the UNIX manual: examples are mailq(1) or access(5). Unfortunately, there is no single universal method to organize manual pages; each UNIX flavor appears to be different. Postfix documentation assumes the following convention:

> Section | Topic
> --- | ---
> 1 | Commands
> 3 | Library routines
> 5 | File formats
> 8 | Daemons

## Commands

- postalias(1), create/update/query alias database
- postcat(1), examine Postfix queue file
- postconf(1), Postfix configuration utility
- postfix(1), Postfix control program
- postkick(1), trigger Postfix daemon
- postlock(1), Postfix-compatible locking
- postlog(1), Postfix-compatible logging
- postmap(1), Postfix lookup table manager
- postmulti(1), Postfix multi-instance manager
- postqueue(1), Postfix mail queue control
- postsuper(1), Postfix housekeeping
- mailq(1), Sendmail compatibility interface
- newaliases(1), Sendmail compatibility interface
- sendmail(1), Sendmail compatibility interface

## Postfix configuration

- bounce(5), Postfix bounce message templates
- master(5), Postfix master.cf file syntax
- postconf(5), Postfix main.cf file syntax
- postfix-wrapper(5), Postfix multi-instance API

## Table-driven mechanisms

- access(5), Postfix SMTP access control table
- aliases(5), Postfix alias database
- canonical(5), Postfix input address rewriting
- generic(5), Postfix output address rewriting
- header_checks(5), body_checks(5), Postfix content inspection
- relocated(5), Users that have moved
- transport(5), Postfix routing table
- virtual(5), Postfix virtual aliasing

## Table lookup mechanisms

- cidr_table(5), Associate CIDR pattern with value
- ldap_table(5), Postfix LDAP client
- mysql_table(5), Postfix MYSQL client
- nisplus_table(5), Postfix NIS+ client
- pcre_table(5), Associate PCRE pattern with value
- pgsql_table(5), Postfix PostgreSQL client
- regexp_table(5), Associate POSIX regexp pattern with value
- tcp_table(5), Postfix client-server table lookup

## Daemon processes

- anvil(8), Postfix connection/rate limiting
- bounce(8), defer(8), trace(8), Delivery status reports
- cleanup(8), canonicalize and enqueue message
- discard(8), Postfix discard delivery agent
- error(8), Postfix error delivery agent
- flush(8), Postfix fast ETRN service
- local(8), Postfix local delivery agent
- master(8), Postfix master daemon
- oqmgr(8), old Postfix queue manager
- pickup(8), Postfix local mail pickup
- pipe(8), deliver mail to non-Postfix command
- postscreen(8), Postfix SMTP triage server
- proxymap(8), Postfix lookup table proxy server
- qmgr(8), Postfix queue manager
- qmqpd(8), Postfix QMQP server
- scache(8), Postfix connection cache manager
- showq(8), list Postfix mail queue
- smtp(8), lmtp(8), Postfix SMTP+LMTP client
- smtpd(8), Postfix SMTP server
- spawn(8), run non-Postfix server
- tlsmgr(8), Postfix TLS cache and randomness manager
- trivial-rewrite(8), Postfix address rewriting
- verify(8), Postfix address verification
- virtual(8), Postfix virtual delivery agent