# Email Reply Cleaner Paste a replied or forwarded email and get just the fresh message — quoted lines, the reply chain, and signatures removed. Toggle each pass. Runs in your browser. ## Run it - **CLI:** `gizza tool email-reply-cleaner "Paste the replied or forwarded email here…"` - **Web:** https://gizza.ai/tools/email-reply-cleaner/ - **Agents:** machine-readable descriptor (parameters JSON Schema) at https://gizza.ai/tools/email-reply-cleaner/tool.json ## Inputs - `text` — Email text _(field)_ - `remove_quotes` — Remove quoted lines (>) _(field)_ - `remove_reply_chain` — Remove reply chain _(field)_ - `remove_signature` — Remove signature _(field)_ - `collapse_blank_lines` — Collapse blank lines _(field)_ ## Output - Cleaned message (text) ## Query parameters Open the tool pre-filled and auto-run via URL: - `text` — Email text - `remove_quotes` — Remove quoted lines (>) - `remove_reply_chain` — Remove reply chain - `remove_signature` — Remove signature - `collapse_blank_lines` — Collapse blank lines Example: `https://gizza.ai/tools/email-reply-cleaner/?text=Paste%20the%20replied%20or%20forwarded%20email%20here%E2%80%A6&remove_quotes=true&remove_reply_chain=true&remove_signature=true&collapse_blank_lines=true` --- ## About this tool **Email Reply Cleaner** pulls the fresh message out of a replied or forwarded plain-text email so you're left with only what the person actually wrote this time — no `>` quote markers, no "On … wrote:" reply chain, and no signature or mobile footer. It's the quick way to grab a clean quote for notes, a ticket, a changelog, or an LLM prompt without hand-deleting the cruft. Everything runs locally in your browser — the email you paste is never uploaded. ### Worked example **Email text** ``` Hi Bob, Friday works — see you at 10. Best, Alice -- Alice Smith Acme Corp On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 10:00 AM Bob wrote: > Are you free on Friday? > Let me know. ``` **Cleaned message** ``` Hi Bob, Friday works — see you at 10. Best, Alice ``` The `-- ` delimiter and everything below it (the signature and the whole quoted reply chain) are cut, and the surrounding blank lines are tidied. ### What each pass does - **Remove quoted lines (>)** — drop every line that begins with the `>` quote marker, including nested `>>` and lines indented before the `>`. - **Remove reply chain** — cut at the first reply boundary and everything below it: an `On … wrote:` attribution, an Outlook `-----Original Message-----` / `From:` header block, or a `---------- Forwarded message ----------` / `Begin forwarded message:` rule. - **Remove signature** — cut at the RFC 3676 `-- ` delimiter or a common mobile/app footer (`Sent from my iPhone`, `Get Outlook for …`) and everything below it. - **Collapse blank lines** — fold runs of blank lines into one and trim blank lines off the top and bottom. Each pass is a checkbox and all four are on by default — turn one off to keep, say, the quoted text but still strip the signature. ### Limits - Plain text only — paste the text body, not raw HTML email markup. - Attribution detection is **English-focused**: it keys on the `On … wrote:` line. The structural markers (`>` prefixes, the `-- ` delimiter, `From:`/`Sent:` headers, forwarded- message rules) are language-neutral, but a translated attribution line may not be caught. - Signature detection is heuristic (the `-- ` delimiter plus a short list of known mobile/app footers), not a trained classifier, so an unusual signature with no delimiter may remain. - A single-line attribution is detected; a header wrapped across two lines (as Gmail sometimes wraps `On … wrote:` at 80 columns) is not. ## FAQ
What exactly gets removed from my email? By default, four things: lines starting with the `>` quote marker, the quoted reply chain (from the `On … wrote:` attribution, an Outlook `-----Original Message-----` / `From:` header block, or a forwarded-message rule downward), the signature (from the `-- ` delimiter or a mobile footer downward), and extra blank lines. Each is a separate checkbox, so you can keep any of them.
Does it handle forwarded messages and Outlook-style headers? Yes. **Remove reply chain** cuts at a `---------- Forwarded message ----------` / `Begin forwarded message:` rule and at an Outlook `-----Original Message-----` marker or a `From: Name ` header line, removing that block and everything below it.
Why is my signature or attribution still showing? Detection is heuristic. Signatures are found by the RFC 3676 `-- ` delimiter or a known mobile footer, so a signature with no delimiter can slip through. Attribution detection is **English-focused** (`On … wrote:`) and only catches single-line attributions — a translated or line-wrapped header may not match. You can delete the leftover manually, or turn a pass off if it is removing too much.
Is my email uploaded anywhere? No. The cleaning runs entirely in your browser via WebAssembly — the text you paste never leaves your device.
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