Mail::...ishTag(3pm)

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🎣 NAME

PhishTag — a SpamAssassin plugin that redirects the links in your incoming emails. It's giving phishing-prevention but make it cute. 💖

(also known as the page for Mail::...ishTag(3pm), from the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the perl universe 🐪)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Okay bestie, here's the whole vibe in four lines:

loadplugin     Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::PhishTag

trigger_ratio    0.1
trigger_target   RULE_NAME  http://www.antiphishing.org/consumer_recs.html

That's it. That's the setup. Slay. 💅

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

So, PhishTag lets admins rewrite links inside emails that trip certain tests — ideally those anti-phishing blocklist tests, you know the ones. 🎣

Here's the girlboss move: the plugin inhibits the blocking of a portion of the emails that trigger the test, so SpamAssassin doesn't just yeet them into the void. Instead they're allowed to pass through to the users' inbox — but only after the rewrite. ✨

Why tho? Because it's genuinely useful for training email users about company policies and general email usage. It's basically a teaching moment disguised as an email. Main character pedagogy. 👑

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

These options get set by modifying the configuration file. That's the assignment. 📝

  • trigger_ratio percentage_value — sets the probability (in percentage) that a positive test will trigger the email rewrite. Like, 0.1 will rewrite on the average 1 in 1000 emails that match the trigger. Yes, you read that right, one. in. a. thousand. Lowkey selective, highkey iconic. 🎀
  • trigger_target RULE_NAME http_url — the name of the test that would trigger the email rewrite. Every single URL in the email gets replaced by http_url. All of them. No survivors. 🦋

📥 DOWNLOAD 📥

The source of this plugin lives at:

http://umut.topkara.org/PhishTag/PhishTag.pm

and there's a sample configuration file too, because of course there is, we love convenience:

http://umut.topkara.org/PhishTag/PhishTag.cf

Go get 'em bestie 🫶

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

Wanna know exactly which tests SpamAssassin runs so you can tune that config file to match your needs? Same. Go check the list here:

https://spamassassin.apache.org/tests.html

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Umut Topkara, 2008, <umut@topkara.org> — http://umut.topkara.org

A whole legend. Periodt. 💜

This plugin is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as SpamAssassin itself — either version 3.2.4 or, at your option, any later version of SpamAssassin you may have available. Your choice, your rules. 🌈

ngl, this whole page is from perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-07-23, and it's the Mail::...ishTag(3pm) manual page itself. Bye bestie, stay un-phished 💖✨🎀
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