SendGrid Spam Email Report

Emails can go to span for multiple reasons such as sending emails to invalid or inactive email addresses, emails are marked as spam by the user, using spam words filtered by email providers, sending emails without permission of the user, emails has images only and no text, etc.

SendGrid provides a facility to periodically send a detailed report of such incidents. 

package org.wesome.sendgrid;

import com.sendgrid.SendGrid;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@SpringBootApplication
@RestController
public class SendGridApplication {
    @Value("${send.grid.api.key}")
    private String sendGridApiKey;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(SendGridApplication.class, args);
    }

    @Bean
    public SendGrid sendGrid() {
        SendGrid sendGrid = new SendGrid(sendGridApiKey);
        return sendGrid;
    }
}
package org.wesome.sendgrid.controller;

import com.sendgrid.Method;
import com.sendgrid.Request;
import com.sendgrid.Response;
import com.sendgrid.SendGrid;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

import java.io.IOException;

@RestController
public class SendGridController {
    @Autowired
    private SendGrid sendGrid;

    @GetMapping
    public ResponseEntity sendGridAPI() throws IOException {
        Request request = new Request();
        Response response;
        try {
            request.setMethod(Method.PATCH);
            request.setEndpoint("mail_settings/forward_spam");
            request.setBody("{\"enabled\":true,\"email\":\"[email protected]\"}");
            response = sendGrid.api(request);
            System.out.println("Headers := \n" + response.getHeaders());
            System.out.println("Body := \n" + response.getBody());
            System.out.println("StatusCode := \n" + response.getStatusCode());
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            throw ex;
        }
        return new ResponseEntity(HttpStatus.valueOf(response.getStatusCode()).getReasonPhrase(), HttpStatus.valueOf(response.getStatusCode()));
    }
}
plugins {
    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.11.RELEASE'
    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.5.5'
    id 'java'
}

group = 'org.wesome'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
    implementation 'com.sendgrid:sendgrid-java:4.4.5'
    implementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
}

test {
    useJUnitPlatform()
}
send.grid.api.key=Your SendGrid Api Key
curl --location --request GET 'localhost:8080/'

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