Lua

Unobfuscate a Spammy Email

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 (example.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.

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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- Demonstrates the UnSpamify method, which unobfuscates an email by undoing common spammer
-- tricks: it removes comments from HTML bodies and unobfuscates hyperlinked URLs.

local email = chilkat.Email.new()
email.subject = "UnSpamify example"

-- An HTML body with an obfuscating comment inserted into a hyperlink.
email:set_html_body("<html><body>Visit <a href=\"http://exa<!--x-->mple.com\">our site</a>.</body></html>")

-- Undo the obfuscation.
email:un_spamify()

local cleaned = email:get_html_body()
print(cleaned)