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postal-list(1)


NAME

   postal-list - program to show how postal expands user names

SYNOPSIS

   postal-list user-list-filename conversion-filename

DESCRIPTION

   This  program shows the expansion that the postal program uses on email
   addresses.  This can be used to make  sure  that  you're  configuration
   files  do  what  you  expect them to, and can also be used to produce a
   list of user-names for an account creation script (in case you want  to
   create a million test accounts in a conveniant fashion).

   The  user-list-filename  is the name of a file which contains a list of
   user's email addresses.  This can be just user-names or fully qualified
   email addresses.

   The conversion-filename parameter will be the name of a file containing
   the conversions to apply to email addresses.  Each line in the file can
   either  be  a  comment  (starting  with  "#")  or  is  to  contain  two
   parameters.  The first parameter is the regular expression.   For  each
   email  that is to be sent a randomly selected user-name will be checked
   against all regular expressions, the first  match  will  determine  the
   translation  that is to be applied.  The translation will be the second
   parameter on the line.  It will contain  a  number  of  "."  characters
   specifying  characters  in  the name that are not to be translated.  To
   specify the translations a range of characters can be specified  inside
   square  brackets.   For example to have every address starting with "a"
   have a character from "01234567890abc" as it's second character  and  a
   character  from  "xyz"  as  it's  third  character  you  would have the
   following: ^a .[0-9abc][xyz]

RETURN CODES

   0      No Error

   1      Bad Parameters

AUTHOR

   This program, it's manual page, and the Debian package were written  by
   Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>.

AVAILABILITY

   The source is available from http://doc.coker.com.au/projects/postal/ .

   See     http://etbe.coker.com.au/category/benchmark     for     further
   information.

SEE ALSO

   postal(8),rabid(8),regex(7)



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