NestedQuote Remover 0.8.1 - Mozilla Thunderbird Extension

NestedQuote Remover swiftly (automatically even if you desire so) eliminates stale quoted text from replies to replies and leaves only the most recently quoted email in place.
Making for a vastly streamlined and cleaner reply process, it's a pity NestedQuote Remover does not work with all styles of quoted text and cannot repair misplaced line breaks.

Reply to an email in Mozilla Thunderbird, and the text of the original message will be quoted neatly in your answer, lending context to your musings. Reply to a reply in Mozilla Thunderbird, and the text of the original message will still be quoted neatly.

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.