Mail:...ivirus(3)

💖 Mail::MIMEDefang::Antivirus(3) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're reading the Mail::MIMEDefang::Antivirus man page together and honestly? it's giving very important. this is section 3 of the manual, and it's all about the antivirus interface methods for your email filters. let's go 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Mail::MIMEDefang::Antivirus — antivirus interface methods for email filters, no cap 🔥

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea: Mail::MIMEDefang::Antivirus is literally a whole set of methods that you can call from mimedefang-filter to scan the email message with whatever antivirus software you've got installed. that's it, that's the vibe. scan the mail, catch the bad guys 💅

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

• message_contains_virus — the method that scans a message using every single installed virus scanner. all of them. it does not skip. it does not play. ✨
• entity_contains_virus — same energy, different target: this one scans a MIME::Entity part using every installed virus scanner. so if you're looking at one little piece of the message instead of the whole thing, this is your girl 🦋
• initialize_virus_scanner_routines — the setup method, the backstage pass 🎟️. it sets @VirusScannerMessageRoutines and @VirusScannerEntityRoutines to arrays of virus-scanner routines to call, based on which scanners are actually installed. lowkey the most important one for making the other ones work.
• run_virus_scanner — the method that actually runs a virus scanner, and it collects the output in $VirusScannerMessages. it's the one doing the work while the others get the credit 😭

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ngl bestie, if you're writing a filter and you want virus scanning in it, these four methods are the whole entire plot. memorize them. iykyk 💜

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and that's a wrap on Mail::MIMEDefang::Antivirus! this page is version 3.7.1, dated 2026-07-20, and it's part of the Mail::MIMEDefang::Antivirus Documentation era. go forth and filter, queen 👑✨