Mail::...Header(3pm)

💖 Mail::...Header 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation set, and the star of the show is Mail::SpamAssassin::Header — it's giving very foundational, because it's literally the base class of the SpamAssassin header universe. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Mail::SpamAssassin::Header — bestie, it's the base class for SpamAssassin headers. everything else wants to be it. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

my $header = Mail::SpamAssassin::Header->new('raw header value');
print $header->value;

that's it. that's the whole vibe. make one, print its value. iconic honestly. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this class is the blueprint for a generic header in SpamAssassin. it doesn't do much on its own — and it's not supposed to! it exists to be the base class that the more specific, more extra header types inherit from. it's the mother of headers, fr fr. 👑

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💅 METHODS 💅

• new($raw) — spins up a brand new instance of the class. hand it the raw header value as a string and it's like ok periodt, I got you. 🫶
• raw() — gives you back that raw header value, as a string. straight from the source, no filter, no glow-up. 💖
• value() — hands you the header value as a string. for a generic header this is literally the same thing as the raw value — no plot twist, no drama. subclasses override it when they wanna do something more specific and main-character. 💀✨

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lowkey reminder bestie: value() being "the same as the raw value" is only true for the plain generic header class itself. subclasses are out here doing their own thing, and that's the whole point. 🙈

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okay that's the whole page, and honestly? it ate. 💖 no cap. this gem shipped with perl v5.40.1 and got its little timestamp of 2026-07-23 — so go forth, subclass responsibly, and slay. 🌈⭐🎀