couriergrey(8)

📦 version 0.3.2, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

💖 couriergrey(8) — the greylisting filter for Courier MTA 💖

okay bestie, gather round, we're learning couriergrey today and honestly? it's a whole vibe. this page lives in the couriergrey project's manual, section 8 (that's the sysadmin/system-tools girlies 💅).

✨ NAME ✨

couriergrey — a greylisting filter for Courier MTA 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

couriergrey [OPTION]

that's it. one binary, some flags, we move 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so, couriergrey is an implementation of the Courier MTA mail filter interface, and what it does is implement the greylist filtering method. periodt. that's the whole job. it filters, it greylists, it slays 💅✨

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -v, --version — prints the software version. cute for flexing, not much else 🌸
  • -s, --socket=PATH — tells it where the filter domain socket lives 🔌
  • -w, --whitelist=PATH — points to the location of the whitelist file 👑
  • -e, --expire=DAYS — expires database entries that are older than this number of days. declutter your database bestie, it's giving spring cleaning 🧹
  • --dumpwhitelist — dumps the content of the parsed whitelist. lowkey a debug move — use it when you need to figure out what your whitelist file is actually doing 🙈
  • -?, --help — shows the help message with all the available options 🫶
  • --usage — displays a brief usage message. short and sweet fr fr ⭐

🚦 Exit states 🚦

  • 0 — couriergrey exited normally. we love a clean exit 😭💖
  • 1 — couriergrey had problems starting up. not iconic, something's wrong 💀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

courierfilter(8) — go read that one too, iykyk 🦋

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Matthias Wimmer — the actual legend behind this 👑

💜 a tiny sign-off from me to you: this page is from version 0.3.2, dated 26 Jan 2012. yes bestie, she's vintage and she still ate. go configure your mail filter, you got this 🌈💅
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