Postfix : unsupported dictionary type: texthash

Question

I installed Postfix on my server and configured it like i have it on an ubuntu machine running.

I added a map to rewrite the sender address (which i have to do because i use mailjet.com as outbound mailserver) to the main.cf

smtp_generic_maps=texthash:/etc/postfix/generic

the generic file looks like following

root@physical1  physical1@mydomain.com

When i restart postfix i get following error message in the syslog

Jan 12 23:51:04 physical1 postfix/smtp[26902]: fatal: dict_open: 
unsupported dictionary type: texthash:  Is the postfix-texthash package installed?

Has anyone a clue why this is happening? I searched if there's a postfix-texthash package but i've not found one

Update

postconf -m
btree
cidr
environ
hash
internal
nis
proxy
regexp
sdbm
static
tcp
unix

Postfix Version : 2.7.1-1+squeeze1

And it would be very useful to know the Postfix version and the distribution name/version.

James O'Gorman · Answer 1 · 2012-01-13 16:37:18Z

You are running Postfix version 2.7. texthash was introduced in Postfix 2.8 with the new postscreen server: http://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html.

You're best off just using hash: and running postmap on the file, as SvenW suggests.

SvenW · Answer 2 · 2012-01-12 23:37:01Z

up vote 1 down vote

Try

smtp_generic_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/generic

and issue the command postmap /etc/postfix/generic before restarting postfix in order to generate the hash file.

answered Jan 12 at 23:37

SvenW
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	This is a workaround to get an equivalent solution. But it is not the exact solution to the question. – mailq Jan 12 at 23:41
	@mailq: Yes, but lacking any further information about the OPs system, it's the only solution that's likely available without further work, and while it doesn't really matter for such a short map file, I consider using a hashed one the better solution anyway. – SvenW Jan 12 at 23:48
	That's true and would be my choice, too. – mailq Jan 12 at 23:51

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