Forwarding HTML Email Without Those Long Blue Lines
Most users of Outlook Express like to see graphics and colors in their received emails. But when we receive one of those emails that has been forwarded who knows how many times it is full of those vertical blue lines over on the left side and that really does take away some of the overall effect that the originator intended.
The popular email strippers that are available will remove all of the >>> and junk from plain text mail, but they won't do anything for HTML mail.
You can edit that email and remove those blue lines your self and here's how to do that. I did this in Windows Mail on a Vista computer, but it will also work the same way using Outlook Express.
First open the email and click Forward. Click View on the menu bar.
When you see the tabs at the bottom, click on the Source.
Now look through the source code and find a selection that starts with something called BLOCKQUOTE. If there is one line on the email you should see it once. For each blue line you will see it listed. Highlight each line as shown in the screenshot below and delete.
Click on File on the main menu and save.
Click the Preview or the Edit tab and now the blue lines are gone.
This will work in Outlook Express or Windows Mail, but not in Microsoft Outlook