Get SpamAssassin Score for an Email

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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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#include <C_CkEmail.h>
#include <C_CkJsonObject.h>
#include <C_CkHttp.h>
#include <C_CkHttpResponse.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkEmail email;
    HCkJsonObject json;
    HCkHttp http;
    HCkHttpResponse resp;

    success = 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.
    email = CkEmail_Create();
    CkEmail_putSubject(email,"this is a test");
    CkEmail_putFrom(email,"support@chilkatsoft.com");
    CkEmail_AddTo(email,"John Doe","john@example.com");
    CkEmail_AddPlainTextAlternativeBody(email,"this is a test");
    CkEmail_AddHtmlAlternativeBody(email,"<html><body><b>Hello John!</b><p>This is a test</p></body></html>");
    success = CkEmail_AddFileAttachment2(email,"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"}'

    json = CkJsonObject_Create();
    CkJsonObject_UpdateString(json,"email",CkEmail_getMime(email));
    CkJsonObject_UpdateString(json,"options","short");

    http = CkHttp_Create();
    resp = CkHttpResponse_Create();
    success = CkHttp_HttpJson(http,"POST","https://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/filter",json,"application/json",resp);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkHttp_lastErrorText(http));
        CkEmail_Dispose(email);
        CkJsonObject_Dispose(json);
        CkHttp_Dispose(http);
        CkHttpResponse_Dispose(resp);
        return;
    }

    printf("response status code = %d\n",CkHttpResponse_getStatusCode(resp));
    printf("response body: \n");
    printf("%s\n",CkHttpResponse_bodyStr(resp));


    CkEmail_Dispose(email);
    CkJsonObject_Dispose(json);
    CkHttp_Dispose(http);
    CkHttpResponse_Dispose(resp);

    }