B4X Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

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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Dim success As Boolean = False

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

'  First build an email to check.
Dim email As ChilkatEmail
email.Initialize
email.Subject = "this is a test"
email.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"}'

Dim json As ChilkatJsonObject
json.Initialize
json.UpdateString("email", email.GetMime)
json.UpdateString("options", "short")

Dim http As ChilkatHttp
http.Initialize("http")
Dim resp As ChilkatHttpResponse
resp.Initialize
success = http.HttpJson("POST", "https://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/filter", json, "application/json", resp)
If success = False Then
    Log(http.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


Log("response status code = " & resp.StatusCode)
Log("response body: ")
Log(resp.BodyStr)