Mail::...RFC2822(3)

✨ NAME ✨

bestie, meet Mail::...RFC2822 — it's the Mail::MIMEDefang::RFC2822 era of your life, and it's literally the date-handling squad for email filters. This is section 3 of the manual, manual name Mail::...RFC2822(3), and the docs themselves are filed under Mail::MIMEDefang::RFC2822 Documentation. no cap. 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so Mail::MIMEDefang::RFC2822 is a whole set of methods you can call straight from mimedefang-filter to build dates that are formatted the RFC2822 way. that's it. that's the vibe. you want a properly formatted date header? she's got you. 💅

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👑 METHODS 👑

🌸 gen_date_msgid_headers

a method that generates RFC2822 compliant Date and Message-ID headers. two for the price of one, obsessed. ✨

🎀 rfc2822_date

a method that returns an RFC2822 formatted date. that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly. 💖

🦋 header_timezone

a method that returns an RFC2822 compliant timezone header. timezone representation? handled. ⭐

💜 gen_msgid_header

a method that generates RFC2822 compliant Message-ID headers. yes, just the one this time. iconic behaviour. 🔥

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 — this was Mail::...RFC2822(3), version 3.7.1, dated 2026-07-20. go format some dates, slay, periodt. 👑🌈