diff --git a/distrib/sets/lists/etc/mi b/distrib/sets/lists/etc/mi
index 3fec986b6e5..2be6c70eb62 100644
--- a/distrib/sets/lists/etc/mi
+++ b/distrib/sets/lists/etc/mi
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 ./etc/mail.rc
 ./etc/mail/aliases
 ./etc/mail/smtpd.conf
-./etc/mail/spamd.conf
 ./etc/mailer.conf
 ./etc/master.passwd
 ./etc/motd
diff --git a/etc/mail/Makefile b/etc/mail/Makefile
index 1b619b34e01..beeacde405d 100644
--- a/etc/mail/Makefile
+++ b/etc/mail/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.13 2015/12/22 07:39:00 sunil Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.14 2025/09/28 12:30:49 sthen Exp $
 
 all clean:
 
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ distribution:
 	    ${DESTDIR}/etc/mail/aliases
 	${INSTALL} -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 smtpd.conf \
 	    ${DESTDIR}/etc/mail/smtpd.conf
-	${INSTALL} -c -o root -g wheel -m 644 spamd.conf \
-	    ${DESTDIR}/etc/mail/spamd.conf
 
 .PHONY: distribution
 .include <bsd.own.mk>
diff --git a/etc/mail/spamd.conf b/etc/mail/spamd.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 1334e041607..00000000000
--- a/etc/mail/spamd.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-# $OpenBSD: spamd.conf,v 1.9 2018/07/22 17:09:43 jmc Exp $
-#
-# spamd(8) configuration file, read by spamd-setup(8).
-# See also spamd.conf(5).
-#
-# Configures lists for spamd(8).
-#
-# Strings follow getcap(3) convention escapes, except you
-# can have a bare colon (:) inside a quoted string and it
-# will deal with it. See spamd-setup(8) for more details.
-#
-# "all" must be here, and defines the order in which lists are applied.
-# Lists specified with the :white: capability apply to the previous
-# list with a :black: capability.
-#
-# As of June 2016, a place to search for blacklists is
-#     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_blacklists
-# - most of these are DNS-based only and cannot be used with spamd(8),
-# but some of the lists also provide access to text files via rsync.
-
-all:\
-	:nixspam:
-
-# Nixspam recent sources list.
-# Mirrored from http://www.heise.de/ix/nixspam
-nixspam:\
-	:black:\
-	:msg="Your address %A is in the nixspam list\n\
-	See http://www.heise.de/ix/nixspam/dnsbl_en/ for details":\
-	:method=https:\
-	:file=www.openbsd.org/spamd/nixspam.gz
-
-# An example of a list containing addresses which should not talk to spamd.
-#
-#override:\
-#	:white:\
-#	:method=file:\
-#	:file=/var/db/override.txt: