DOVEADM-PENALTY(1)                  Dovecot                 DOVEADM-PENALTY(1)

NAME
       doveadm-penalty - Show current penalties

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

DESCRIPTION
       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).



EXAMPLE
         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

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

SEE ALSO
       doveadm(1)

e5ac02a                            May 2026                 DOVEADM-PENALTY(1)