Mail::M...g::Mail(3)

✨ NAME ✨

Mail::MIMEDefang::Mail — literally the mail + SMTP method collection for your email filters 💌 (this is the page for Mail::M...g::Mail(3), bestie, yes the name got truncated by the terminal, we don't talk about it)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so Mail::MIMEDefang::Mail is a whole lil' squad of methods you can call straight from mimedefang-filter — one for sending email messages, one for running SMTP checks. That's the gig. That's the whole vibe. Icons only.

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💅 METHODS 💅

🎀 resend_message_one_recipient

Re-sends the message as if it came from the original sender, but to a single recipient. One. Just the one. No cap.

🎀 resend_message_specifying_mode

Re-sends the message as if it came from the original sender, to a list of recipients. Yeah, you pick the mode, the mode does not pick you ✨

🎀 resend_message

Re-sends the message as if it came from the original sender, to a list of recipients. Same energy, different name, we love options 🫶

🎀 pretty_print_mail

Makes a pretty-printed version of the e-mail body that is no longer than size characters. Glow-up, but make it length-limited. 💖

🎀 get_smtp_return_code

Reads the return codes from the SMTP server. Returns a four-element list:

(retval, code, dsn, text)

where code is a 3-digit SMTP code. And retval is one of 'CONTINUE', 'TEMPFAIL' or 'REJECT'. That's it, that's the tea 🍓

🎀 get_smtp_extensions

Checks the SMTP server's supported extensions. Heads up though: it expects EHLO to have already been sent — that's an artifact of get_smtp_return_code, so like, don't come in cold. 🙈

The sub returns a four-element list:

(retval, code, dsn, exts)

• retval is 'CONTINUE', 'TEMPFAIL', or 'REJECT'.
• code is a 3-digit SMTP code.
• dsn is an extended SMTP status code.
• exts is a hash of EXTNAME->EXTOPTS.

Periodt. 👑

🎀 md_check_against_smtp_server

Verifies a recipient against another SMTP server by issuing a HELO / MAIL FROM: / RCPT TO: / QUIT sequence. A whole little conversation, fr fr.

The method accepts the following parameters:

• sender e-mail address
• recipient e-mail address
• helo string to put in "HELO" command
• SMTP server to try.
• optional: Port to connect on (defaults to 25)

And the method returns:

• ('CONTINUE', "OK") if recipient is OK ✅
• ('TEMPFAIL', "err") if temporary failure 😭
• ('REJECT', "err") if recipient is not OK 💀

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💡 gentle reminder: the helo string goes in the "HELO" command exactly, and that port? defaults to 25 if you don't say otherwise. You got this, babe.

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That's the whole page, bestie!! This was Mail::M...g::Mail(3) from the Mail::MIMEDefang::Mail Documentation, version 3.7.1, dated 2026-07-20 — slay, go filter some mail 💖✨🎀🦋🌸🫶