Chapter 23. The K (Database-Map) Configuration Command
Database-maps can be used to look up information in databases, to perform transformations (such as dequoting), to perform computations, and to store values into macros.
What’s New with V8.13
V8.13 sendmail has expanded the roles of database-maps in the following ways:
Two new
ldapdatabase-map switches have been added:-w(Section 23.1.1.1 [V8.13]) allows you to specify the LDAP API/protocol version to use;-H(Section 23.1.1.2 [V8.13]) allows you to specify an LDAP URI instead of specifying the LDAP server with both the-hhost (23.7.11.4[3ed]) and-pport (23.7.11.9[3ed]).[30]LDAP Recursion has been added (Section 23.1.2[V8.13]) with support for the
AliasFileoption (24.9.1[3ed]) and class macros.The
ldap_routingfeature’s third argument may now be a literalsendertooto reject nonexistent envelope sender addresses. (Section 23.1.3 [V8.13])The
ldap_routingfeature has had its arguments expanded from four to six. Support has been added to suppress an extra lookup of part of an unmatched address and to specify how to handle connection errors to and temporary failures from the LDAP server (Section 23.1.4 [V8.13]).The
dnsblfeature (7.2.1[3ed]) no longer uses thehostdatabase-map type to look up addresses. Instead, it now uses thednsdatabase-map type (Section 9.1.1 [V8.13]). TheDNSBL_MAP_OPTmcmacro (Section 9.1.1 [V8.13]) has been added to help tune the use of thednsdatabase-map type with thednsblfeature. (These new ...