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.
1. slimail - Email Cleanup Service
Heinz Tschabitscher
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.
It's really a pity slimail cannot clean existing email accounts. You get a new address instead, which forwards to your current one.
It's really a pity slimail cannot clean existing email accounts. You get a new address instead, which forwards to your current one.
2. textSOAP for Windows - Email Cleanup Tool
Heinz Tschabitscher
textSOAP for Windows is excellent for cleaning text, but it has its share of problems with quoting it for use in email replies.
3. Clippy - Email Cleanup Tool
Heinz Tschabitscher
Clippy cleans text from emails in countless flexible ways, and you can combine its actions in any way you like or need. Unfortunately, this does not include re-wrapping quoted text, though.
4. StripMail - Email Cleanup Tool
Heinz Tschabitscher
StripMail is a solid program for cleaning up emails. StripMail's formatting capabilities could still need improvement, though.
5. eClean 2000 - Email Cleanup Tool
Heinz Tschabitscher
eClean 2000 cleans broken forwards perfectly out of the box and can configured to suit your requirements with numerous options. eClean 2000 is not so well suited for formatting replies, though.
6. eCleaner - Email Cleanup Tool
Heinz Tschabitscher
Remove > symbols, HTML code and old headers from emails with one click and eCleaner.
7. emailStripper - Email Cleanup Tool
Heinz Tschabitscher
EmailStripper is really easy to use, and although it lacks sophisticated features usually produces great results cleaning up and fixing forwarded emails.
8. Mail Cleaner Express - Email Cleanup Tool
Heinz Tschabitscher
Mail Cleaner Express is a no-nonsense tool for removing '>' and other ugly characters from forwarded message text quickly. Unfortunately, Mail Cleaner Express does not rewrap the cleaned text and lacks configuration options as well as more sophisticated re-formatting tools.
9. SmartWrap for Windows - Email Cleanup Tool
Heinz Tschabitscher
SmartWrap for Windows is a no-fuss tool for cleaning and re-wrapping text from forwarded emails or replies in the most simple fashion possible. A plug-in for Eudora makes SmartWrap for Windows a bit easier to use, but that cannot make up for its lack of formatting power (especially when it comes to quoted text) and options.
10. Quote Stripper - Email Cleanup Tool
Heinz Tschabitscher
Quote Stripper is simple and does its job reliably. Unfortunately, it restricts its job description to removing '>' characters.
Please do let me know!
