Question

I’m using Zend_Mail and the following code to send my email messages.

$mail = new Zend_Mail('UTF-8');
$mail ->setBodyText($plainBody)
   ->setBodyHtml($htmlBody)
   ->setSubject($subject)
   ->setFrom(FROM_ADDR, FROM_NAME)
   ->addTo($email, $name )
   ->addHeader(MY_HEADER, serialize( array( 'foo' => 'bar' ) ) )
;

I need to check the spam rating for the prepared message and I’d like to do it using SpamAssassin.

I thought to create a file with the contents and running something such as exec('spamc $filename'), but how to get the file content with the full MIME body?
I noticed that there’s a _buildBody() function in Zend_Mail_Abstract class (library/Zend/Mail/Transport/Abstract.php) that’s return that, but that’s a protected function.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you want to use SpamAssasin, then run your email message through spamc:

http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.1.x/doc/spamc.html

Spamc is the client half of the spamc/spamd pair. It should be used in
place of spamassassin in scripts to process mail. It will read the
mail from STDIN, and spool it to its connection to spamd, then read
the result back and print it to STDOUT. Spamc has extremely low
overhead in loading, so it should be much faster to load than the
whole spamassassin program.

You can do use in PHP by:

1. Writing the message into a temporary file and running shell_exec('spamc < message.tmp'), or
2. Running the command with proc_open() then send message via STDIN.