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DOVEAD-PENALTY

Section: Dovecot (1)
Updated: February 2026
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NAME

dovead-penalty- Show current penalties

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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

GLOBAL OPTIONS

Global doveadm(1) -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

-k

: Preserve entire environment for doveadm, not just import_environment setting.

-v

: Enables verbosity, including progress counter.

-i instanc-name

: If using multiple Dovecot instances, choose the config file based on this instance name. See instance_name setting for more information.

-c confi-file

: Read configuration from the given confi-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

ARGUMENTS

ip [lB]/mask[rB]

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

EXAMPLE

doveadm penalty

IP               penalty last_penalty        last_update
192.0.2.222            3 201-0-15 15:19:27 15:19:27
192.0.2.53             3 201-0-15 15:19:34 15:19:34

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs, including doveconf-n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List ladovecot@dovecot.orgra. Information about reporting bugs is available at: https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html