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Windows Email Cleanup Tools

Forwarded emails and messages that have seen many replies are notorious for containing lots of '>' characters in all the wrong places and line breaks where they should not be. Email cleanup utilities will turn this mess into easily legible, and usable text.
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Top Email Cleanup Utilities for Windows

Forwarded emails frequently contain > chars in all the wrong places. Fortunately, there are Windows utilities that will remove these annoying characters and reformat the mail for easier reading and further usage.

Clippy - Email Cleanup Tool

Clippy cleans text from emails in countless flexible ways, and you can combine its actions in any way you like or need.

eClean 2000

eClean 2000 turns forwarded emails that you receive as a complete mess into clean, easily legible text with a few mouse clicks.

eCleaner

Remove > symbols, HTML code and old headers from emails with one click and eCleaner.

emailStripper

EmailStripper is really easy to use, and although it lacks sophisticated features usually produces great results cleaning up and fixing forwarded emails.

Quote Stripper

Quote Stripper is simple and does its job reliably. Unfortunately, it restricts its job description to removing '>' characters.

slimail - Fun Email Cleanup Service

slimail not only cleans up all those fun forwards you receive (no more wading through long boring paragraphs to find a tiny link), it also blocks duplicate messages, simplifies subjects, lets you block content while you're away and comes with a rating system.

SmartWrap

SmartWrap is a no-fuss tool for cleaning and re-wrapping text from forwarded emails or replies in the most simple fashion possible.

StripMail - Email Cleanup Tool

StripMail is a solid program for cleaning up emails.

Text Monkey PRO

Text Monkey PRO cleans your emails intelligently and flexibly in one go.

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