Sample code for 30+ languages & platforms
Rust

Unobfuscate a Spammy Email

See more Email Object Examples

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 Rust Downloads

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

let email = chilkat::Email::new();
email.set_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();

let cleaned = email.get_html_body().unwrap_or_default();
println!("{}", cleaned);