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Visual Basic 6.0

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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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

' 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 New ChilkatEmail
email.Subject = "this is a test"
email.From = "support@chilkatsoft.com"
success = email.AddTo("John Doe","john@example.com")
success = email.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody("this is a test")
success = 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 New ChilkatJsonObject
success = json.UpdateString("email",email.GetMime())
success = json.UpdateString("options","short")

Dim http As New ChilkatHttp
Dim resp As New ChilkatHttpResponse
success = http.HttpJson("POST","https://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/filter",json,"application/json",resp)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print http.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print "response status code = " & resp.StatusCode
Debug.Print "response body: "
Debug.Print resp.BodyStr