The Bottom Line
- NestedQuote Remover snips quoted text relics of old emails from your replies
- The level up to which you want to keep quotations can be set freely
- NestedQuote Remover can remove unwanted quoted text automatically or via the context menu
- NestedQuote Remover does not work with all styles of quoted text
- You cannot decide per message or as it happens how much text you want to keep
Description
- NestedQuote Remover strips unnecessary text from email replies.
- Text quoted more than once is removed automatically or via a context menu item.
- A configurable keyboard shortcut is also available.
- Optionally, you can make NestedQuote Remover keep more text (e.g. 2 levels of quotation).
- NestedQuote Remover supports Mozilla Thunderbird 1.x.
Guide Review - NestedQuote Remover 0.8.1 - Mozilla Thunderbird Extension
This time, however, much of it will be superfluous at best and distracting more commonly. An excess of stale text from previous emails can make finding the actual message difficult, and with each level of reply and quotation respectively, matters get worse. You can, of course, remove old and now unnecessary text by hand. Much more elegant, though, is the use of an extension.
NestedQuote Remover does as its name promises. Invoked either through a context menu item or automatically when you start a reply, NestedQuote Remover removes all text whose level of quotation exceeds a certain threshold. You can configure how much text you want to keep, but usually leaving only one level — the text new to the message to which you are replying — will work fine. In more evolved conversations, NestedQuote Remover can do wonders to the cleanliness and easy with which you reply.
It's just a pity that NestedQuote Remover does not recognize all styles of quotations used in emails and that inappropriately wrapped text that has too many '>' signs in some places and too few in others is as confusing to NestedQuote Remover as it is to the human reader. NestedQuote Remover does leave such text untouched as not to add to the injury.
