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Visual FoxPro
Unobfuscate a Spammy Email
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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.UnSpamify method, which unobfuscates an email by undoing common spammer tricks — it removes comments from HTML bodies and unobfuscates hyperlinked URLs. This example cleans an HTML body whose link was broken up by an inserted comment.
Background: Spammers deliberately scramble HTML to slip past filters — inserting empty comments in the middle of words or URLs (
exa<!--x-->mple.com), or otherwise obfuscating links — so the message renders normally to a human but confuses naive keyword matching. UnSpamify reverses those tricks, producing a normalized body that is easier to analyze, classify, or scan for the real destination of its links.Chilkat Visual FoxPro Downloads
LOCAL loEmail
LOCAL lcCleaned
* Demonstrates the UnSpamify method, which unobfuscates an email by undoing common spammer
* tricks: it removes comments from HTML bodies and unobfuscates hyperlinked URLs.
loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loEmail.Subject = "UnSpamify example"
* An HTML body with an obfuscating comment inserted into a hyperlink.
loEmail.SetHtmlBody('<html><body>Visit <a href="http://exa<!--x-->mple.com">our site</a>.</body></html>')
* Undo the obfuscation.
loEmail.UnSpamify()
lcCleaned = loEmail.GetHtmlBody()
? lcCleaned
RELEASE loEmail