doveadm-penalty(1)

doveadm-penalty1

Show current penalties

Usage

doveadm [GLOBAL OPTIONS] penalty [-a anvil_socket_path] [ip [/ mask]]

Overview

The doveadm penalty command can be used to see the current penalties.

Global options

Global doveadm(1) options:

-D

Enables verbosity and debug messages.

-O

Do not read any config file, just use defaults. The dovecot_storage_version setting defaults to the latest version, but can be overridden with -o.

-k

Preserve entire environment for doveadm, not just import_environment setting.

-v

Enables verbosity, including progress counter.

-i instance-name

If using multiple Dovecot instances, choose the config file based on this instance name.

See instance_name setting for more information.

-c config-file

Read configuration from the given config-file. By default it first reads config socket, and then falls back to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. You can also point this to config socket of some instance running compatible version.

-o setting=value

Overrides the configuration setting from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. In order to override multiple settings, the -o option may be specified multiple times.

Options

-a anvil_socket_path

This option is used to specify an alternative socket. The option's argument is either an absolute path to a local UNIX domain socket, or a hostname and port (hostname:port), in order to connect a remote host via a TCP socket.

By default doveadm(1) will use the socket /rundir/anvil. The socket may be located in another directory, when the default base_dir setting was overridden in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.

Arguments

ip [/mask]

To reduce/filter the output supply an IP address or a network range in CIDR notation (ip/mask).

Examples

doveadm penalty
IP               penalty last_penalty        last_update
192.0.2.222            3 2010-06-15 15:19:27 15:19:27
192.0.2.53             3 2010-06-15 15:19:34 15:19:34

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 10
  5. 11–12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

-O since Debian 13 (Trixie); -c since Debian 13 (Trixie); -i since Debian 13 (Trixie); -k since Debian 13 (Trixie); -o since Debian 9 (Stretch).

Reporting bugs

Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List ⟨[email protected]⟩. Information about reporting bugs is available at: ⟨https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html⟩

From dovecot 2.4.5-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-07. Also shipped by dovecot23. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.