(C++) 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.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool 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.
    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;
    success = http.HttpJson("POST","https://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/filter",json,"application/json",resp);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << http.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    std::cout << "response status code = " << resp.get_StatusCode() << "\r\n";
    std::cout << "response body: " << "\r\n";
    std::cout << resp.bodyStr() << "\r\n";
    }