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Free JSON API to instantly check the spam score of your email messages

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Re: Free JSON API to instantly check the spam score of your email messages

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Post by alexknowshtml »

If mail goes to spam while using Postmark, it's almost ALWAYS related to the content. So we built this very simply tool to help you test the headers and contents of your emails to make sure that they're scoring as well as possible to go one step further in avoiding the spam folder!

We decided to offer it as a free API to make the world of email just a bit better. We also built a simple single-page scoring tool for anyone to use even if they're not API savvy.

Ideas and feedback are welcome!

Re: Free JSON API to instantly check the spam score of your email messages

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Post by DTrejo »

alexknowshtml wrote: post #2

If mail goes to spam while using Postmark, it's almost ALWAYS related to the content. So we built this very simply tool to help you test the headers and contents of your emails to make sure that they're scoring as well as possible to go one step further in avoiding the spam folder! We decided to offer it as a free API to make the world of email just a bit better. We also built a simple single-page scoring tool for an…

This is great — now I can test my spamminess without needing to have an expert look at it first :)

Update: would be nice to see a legend with the whole scale ratings possible.

Re: Free JSON API to instantly check the spam score of your email messages

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Post by manuscreationis »

Would you consider putting some kind of resource on the site for explaining some of the common results? For example, why the Text to Image ratio matters.

Also, I've tried a few emails: 1 of them ranked a 1.0, 2 of them a 0.4, but all three times the little white dot was in the same position (at about 2:50, if it were the face of a clock). Not sure if thats a bug or not.

Re: Free JSON API to instantly check the spam score of your email messages

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Post by ppadron »

Nice! I have created something similar, called Konstati (http://konstati.co), focusing on email marketers. So far it only tests emails against Spamassassin, providing useful tips about each SA rule (still only in portuguese, though).

I'm currently working on it to support W3C validation, link and image checkers and email previews.

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