Mail::...cessDB(3pm)

💖 Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AccessDB 💖

okay bestie so this one lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section — it's a 3pm page, iykyk — and it's genuinely iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AccessDB — it checks your message against an Access Database, fr fr 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

like, this is the whole setup, no notes:

loadplugin     Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AccessDB

header   ACCESSDB  eval:check_access_database('/etc/mail/access.db')
describe ACCESSDB  Message would have been caught by accessdb
tflags   ACCESSDB  userconf
score    ACCESSDB  2

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So many MTAs out there have access databases — we're talking Sendmail, Postfix, etc. 💅 And this plugin does similar checks to see whether a message would have been flagged. It's giving detective energy. 🔍

Here's the vibe check on what the rule returns:

• The rule returns false if an entry isn't found, or the entry has a RHS of OK or SKIP. 🫶
• The rule returns true if an entry exists and has a RHS of REJECT, ERROR, or DISCARD. 🔥

⚠️ okay important note, bestie: only the first word (split on non-word characters) of the RHS is checked, so "error:5.7.1:..." means "ERROR". Don't come for me, that's just how it is. 😭

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🧚 AccessDB Pointers 🧚

• http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap22sec178.html
• http://www.postfix.org/access.5.html

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⭐ and that's the whole page, periodt. this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-07-23, and the manual is literally Mail::...cessDB(3pm). slay, go forth and check those access databases 💖🌈💅