SPAMDB(8) BSD System Manager's Manual SPAMDB(8)
spamdb - spamd database tool
spamdb [[-Tt] -a keys] [[-Tt] -d keys]
spamdb manipulates the spamd database in /var/db/spamd used for spamd(8).
The options are as follows:
-a keys
Add or update the entries for keys. This can be used to whitelist
one or more IP addresses (i.e. circumvent the greylisting process
altogether) by adding all IP addresses as keys to the spamd data-
base for WHITE entries. If any keys specified match entries al-
ready in the spamd database, spamdb updates the entry's time last
seen to now.
-d keys
Delete entries for keys.
-T Add or delete the keys as SPAMTRAP entries. See the GREYTRAPPING
section of spamd(8) for more information. Must be used in con-
junction with the -a or -d option.
-t Add or delete the keys as TRAPPED entries. See the GREYTRAPPING
section of spamd(8) for more information. Must be used in con-
junction with the -a or -d option.
If adding or deleting a SPAMTRAP address (-T), keys should be specified
as email addresses:
spamtrap@mydomain.org
Otherwise keys must be numerical IP addresses.
If invoked without any arguments, spamdb lists the contents of the data-
base in a text format. For SPAMTRAP entries the format is:
type|mailaddress
where type will be SPAMTRAP and mailaddress will be the email address for
which any connections received by spamd(8) will be blacklisted if mail is
sent to this address.
For TRAPPED entries the format is:
type|ip|expire
where type will be TRAPPED, IP will be the IP address blacklisted due to
hitting a spamtrap, and expire will be when the IP is due to be removed
from the blacklist.
For GREY or WHITE entries, the format is:
type|source IP|helo|from|to|first|pass|expire|block|pass
The fields are as follows:
type WHITE if whitelisted or GREY if greylisted
source IP IP address the connection originated from
helo what the connecting host sent as identification in the
HELO/EHLO command in the SMTP dialogue
from envelope-from address for GREY (empty for WHITE entries)
to envelope-to address for GREY (empty for WHITE entries)
first time the entry was first seen
pass time the entry passed from being GREY to being WHITE
expire time the entry will expire and be removed from the data-
base
block number of times a corresponding connection received a
temporary failure from spamd(8)
pass number of times a corresponding connection has been seen
to pass to the real MTA by spamlogd(8)
Note that times are in seconds since the Epoch, in the manner returned by
time(3). Times may be converted to human readable format using:
$ date -r <value>
/var/db/spamd
spamd.conf(5), spamd(8), spamd-setup(8)
The spamdb command appeared in OpenBSD 3.5.
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