(MFC) Get SpamAssassin Score for an Email

Uses Postmark’s spam API (a RESTfull interface to the SpamAssassin filter tool) to analyze an email to get a spam score.

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MS Visual C/C++ Libs

See Also: Using MFC CString in Chilkat

#include <CkEmail.h>
#include <CkJsonObject.h>
#include <CkHttp.h>
#include <CkHttpResponse.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    CkString strOut;

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    bool success;

    // First build an email to check.
    CkEmail email;
    email.put_Subject("this is a test");
    email.put_From("support@chilkatsoft.com");
    email.AddTo("John Doe","john@example.com");
    email.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody("this is a test");
    email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body><b>Hello John!</b><p>This is a test</p></body></html>");
    success = email.AddFileAttachment2("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg","image/jpeg");

    // Check this email by implementing this curl command:

    // curl -X POST "https://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/filter"
    // -H "Accept: application/json"
    // -H "Content-Type: application/json"
    // -v
    // -d '{"email":"raw dump of email", "options":"short"}'

    CkJsonObject json;
    json.UpdateString("email",email.getMime());
    json.UpdateString("options","short");

    CkHttp http;
    CkHttpResponse *resp = http.PostJson3("https://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/filter","application/json",json);
    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        strOut.append(http.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    strOut.append("response status code = ");
    strOut.appendInt(resp->get_StatusCode());
    strOut.append("\r\n");
    strOut.append("response body: ");
    strOut.append("\r\n");
    strOut.append(resp->bodyStr());
    strOut.append("\r\n");

    delete resp;


    SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());

    }