Often I copy, paste the whole message into Word using 'paste unformatted text'. Then recopy/paste into a new e-mail message to send on. That seems to get rid of many things and allows you to edit to your heart's content. It only takes seconds to do. ~
Posted by: Cindy Baalbergen at March 3, 2009 8:27 AM
I also highlight the body of the message and copy/paste directly into a new email. It doesn't copy the blue lines. I then put my own email address in the "To" field and put everyone I want to send it to in the "Bcc" field. This cleans up the email and removes all those addresses in one step.
Posted by: Kitty A. at March 3, 2009 8:48 AM
Your solution to reply in plain text is a good one, however, it does not address those emails with graphics in them. If you wish to forward said email to a friend, you can't forward it as plain text otherwise you'll lose the graphic.
Posted by: Ross Guistino at March 3, 2009 9:01 AM
When I forward an email that has come to me with "the dreaded blue lines," I first click on "reply" which gives me an editable version, and then highlight the text and or graphics that I wish to forward. I then right-click and select "cut" -then right-click again and "Select All" and delete. Now I can paste back into the body of the email the part I cut, and the lines and any other artifacts are not there. Easy and fast to do.
Posted by: Joe Read at March 3, 2009 9:01 AM
I use stripmail to clean up my emails before I send them on.
Posted by: John Schneider at March 3, 2009 11:49 AM
On the reply or forward click Format\Plain Text and then Format\HTML (or Rich Text). The lines will be gone.
That assumes you have those options available in your mail program.
- Leo 04-Mar-2009
Posted by: Bill Short at March 3, 2009 12:45 PM
Hi Leo,
I have red the article, thanks for the info.
I would like to know " how to delete the mailer info while forwarding the same mail to others"?
For Eg: i have got the Animatted or some pictures mail with the fields " forwarded form jjjjj@com" , and at the end of mail "Thanks & regards XYZ". i want to replace this with my name.
Thaks and Regards,
Syed
Posted by: Syed Jalaluddin at March 4, 2009 3:16 AM
Just save your document as a text file and it will delete the blue line. Then you can resave as a word document and it will be gone.
Posted by: Patsy Terrell at April 21, 2009 9:20 AM
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Often I copy, paste the whole message into Word using 'paste unformatted text'. Then recopy/paste into a new e-mail message to send on. That seems to get rid of many things and allows you to edit to your heart's content. It only takes seconds to do. ~
Posted by: Cindy Baalbergen at March 3, 2009 8:27 AMI also highlight the body of the message and copy/paste directly into a new email. It doesn't copy the blue lines. I then put my own email address in the "To" field and put everyone I want to send it to in the "Bcc" field. This cleans up the email and removes all those addresses in one step.
Posted by: Kitty A. at March 3, 2009 8:48 AMYour solution to reply in plain text is a good one, however, it does not address those emails with graphics in them. If you wish to forward said email to a friend, you can't forward it as plain text otherwise you'll lose the graphic.
Posted by: Ross Guistino at March 3, 2009 9:01 AMWhen I forward an email that has come to me with "the dreaded blue lines," I first click on "reply" which gives me an editable version, and then highlight the text and or graphics that I wish to forward. I then right-click and select "cut" -then right-click again and "Select All" and delete. Now I can paste back into the body of the email the part I cut, and the lines and any other artifacts are not there. Easy and fast to do.
Posted by: Joe Read at March 3, 2009 9:01 AMI use stripmail to clean up my emails before I send them on.
Posted by: Juli at March 3, 2009 9:12 AMWhy don't you try this free download--it will clean up all of it:
Posted by: Jim at March 3, 2009 10:51 AMhttp://www.papercut.com/emailStripper.htm
Stripper, as Jim says above, is the way to go.
Posted by: John Schneider at March 3, 2009 11:49 AMOn the reply or forward click Format\Plain Text and then Format\HTML (or Rich Text). The lines will be gone.
04-Mar-2009
Hi Leo,
I have red the article, thanks for the info.
I would like to know " how to delete the mailer info while forwarding the same mail to others"?
For Eg: i have got the Animatted or some pictures mail with the fields " forwarded form jjjjj@com" , and at the end of mail "Thanks & regards XYZ". i want to replace this with my name.
Thaks and Regards,
Syed
Posted by: Syed Jalaluddin at March 4, 2009 3:16 AMJust save your document as a text file and it will delete the blue line. Then you can resave as a word document and it will be gone.
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