Mail::...tispam(3)

💖 Mail::MIMEDefang::Antispam 💖

okay bestie, welcome to Mail::MIMEDefang::Antispam(3) — the antispam corner of the MIMEDefang docs, and honestly? it's giving tiny but powerful. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

Mail::MIMEDefang::Antispam — the antispam-related methods for your email filters, no cap. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically, Mail::MIMEDefang::Antispam is a little collection of methods you can call from mimedefang-filter to run your email messages through antispam software and see what's up. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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👑 METHODS 👑

spam_assassin_is_spam 🔥

scans a message with SpamAssassin and returns True if the email got flagged as spam. simple. iconic. one job, does it. ✨

spam_assassin_check 💜

scans a message with SpamAssassin and hands you back an array of four elements, in this exact order:

• the weight of the message ('hits')
• the number of hits required before SA considers a message spam
• a comma separated list of symbolic test names that were triggered
• a 'report' string, detailing the tests that failed and their weights

spam_assassin_status 🫶

scans a message with SpamAssassin and returns a Mail::SpamAssassin:PerMsgStatus object.

heads up bestie — you, the caller, are responsible for calling the finish method. that's on you, not on this sub. don't leave it hanging. 😭

spam_assassin_init ⭐

initializes Apache SpamAssassin and returns a Mail::SpamAssassin object. that's it, that's the sub. 🌈

spam_assassin_mail 🧚

calls SpamAssassin and returns a Mail::SpamAssassin::Message object. cute little message object for you. 💖

md_spamc_init 🍓

initializes Apache SpamAssassin and returns a Mail::SpamAssassin::Client object.

real talk: md_spamc_init and md_spamc_check should be used only with Apache SpamAssassin starting from version 4.0.1. don't come for me, that's just the rule. 💀

the sub returns a Mail::SpamAssassin::Client object.

optional parameters, in case you wanna get fancy:

• the SpamAssassin host
• the SpamAssassin port
• the username to pass to the SpamAssassin server
• the maximum size of the email message

md_spamc_check 💅

scans the message using the SpamAssassin Perl client and returns an array of four elements:

• the weight of the message ('score')
• the number of hits required before Apache SpamAssassin considers a message spam
• a 'report' string, detailing the tests that failed and their weights
• a flag explaining if the email is a spam message or not (true/false)

required parameter: a Mail::SpamAssassin::Client object initialized by calling the md_spamc_init sub. gotta have it, no shortcuts. 🎀

rspamd_check 🌈

scans the message using Rspamd and returns an array of six elements:

• the weight of the message ('hits')
• the number of hits required before Rspamd considers a message spam
• a comma separated list of symbolic test names that were triggered
• a 'report' string, detailing the tests that failed and their weights — or a Json report if the JSON and LWP modules are present
• an action that should be applied to the email
• a flag explaining if the email is a spam message or not (true/false)

you can also pass an optional rspamd url to the method, and its default value is:

http://127.0.0.1:11333

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! go forth and filter those spams, you absolute main character. 👑

this was version 3.7.1, dated 2026-07-20, straight out of the Mail::MIMEDefang::Antispam documentation — mwah, bye!! 💖✨🦋