NAME

       policyd-rate-limit - rate limiter SMTP policy daemon

SYNOPSIS

       policyd-rate-limit [-h] [--clean] [--get-config configname] [--file configpath]

DESCRIPTION

       policyd-rate-limit(8) is a SMTP policy daemon written in python3(1) for postfix(1).  It keep track of the
       number  of  mails  sent  by  sasl  usernames and/or ip addresses over time sliding window. A configurable
       action (see access(5)) is done then a user and/or ip address exceeds one or more configurable limits.

SETUP

       For example, for postfix 3.0 and later, you can set in postfix /etc/postfix/main.cf configuration file:

          smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
            ...,
            check_policy_service { unix:ratelimit/policy, default_action=DUNNO },
            ...

       Postfix will ask policyd-rate-limit what to do on mail reception (success or fail action) and will accept
       mail if policyd-rate-limit become unavailable.

       On previous postfix versions, you must use:

          smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
            ...,
            check_policy_service unix:ratelimit/policy,
            ...

OPTIONS

          -h, --help
                 show this help message and exit

          --clean
                 clean old records from the database

          --get-config configname
                 return the value of the configname configuration parameter. You can get a value in a dictionary
                 by using a dotted notation. For instance, for getting the key KEY in the dictionary  DICT,  you
                 should  use  DICT.KEY  for  configname. You can call the configuration parameter config_file to
                 known which configuration file is used.

          -f, --file
                 path to a policyd-rate-limit configuration file

LOGGING

       Logging is output to stderr and redirected to syslog(3) by systemd.  Logs are produced only if the  debug
       configuration parameter is set to True.

CONFIGURATION

       If  the  option  --file  is  not  specified, policyd-rate-limit(8) try to read its configuration from the
       following path and choose the first existing file:

          ~/.config/policyd-rate-limit.conf
          ~/.config/policyd-rate-limit.yaml
          /etc/policyd-rate-limit.conf
          /etc/policyd-rate-limit.yaml

       The .conf are the old configuration format. It was a python module and should not be used.  The .yaml are
       the new configuration format using the YAML syntax. See YAML(3pm) for an overview  of  the  format.   See
       policyd-rate-limit.yaml(5) for possible settings.

EXIT VALUES

          0   Normal exit.

          1   Only return then the option --get-config is used. Configuration parameter not found.

          2   User or group set in the configuration file do not exists.

          3   Another instance is already running

          4   The configuration parameter SOCKET is malformed

          5   Configuration file not found

          6   Some error was raised during runtime

          8   Error during cleaning

SEE ALSO

       policyd-rate-limit.yaml(5): policyd-rate-limit configuration file
       master(5), Postfix master.cf file syntax
       access(5), Postfix SMTP access control table

AUTHOR

       Valentin Samir <valentin.samir@crans.org>

COPYRIGHT

       GPL-3

3.8                                                2016-08-04                              policyd-rate-limit(8)