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How to hide/remove "Forwarded Message"-Header to increase Clarity of Mails?

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Brabella
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When forwarding emails there is always this ugly message header placed on top of the mail content. Example:

Forwarded Message --------

Subject: Re: Playing football in the afternoon Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 10:27:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Alice Adam <alice.adam@mail.com> Reply-To: Bob Builder <bob.builder@mail.com> To: Caesar Celuis <caesar.celuis@mail.com>, Daesar Deluis <daesar.deluis@mail.com>, Eaesar Eeluis <eaesar.eeluis@mail.com>, Faesar Feluis <faesar.feluis@mail.com>, Gaesar Geluis <gaesar.geluis@mail.com> CC: playground@mail.com, referee@mail.com

With increasing amount of recipients this header will take advantage of the white space while damaging the readability. Would it be possible to remove/hide this whole text block?

Maybe there is some about:config to automatically prevent Thunderbird from adding this header when forwarding messages?

When forwarding emails there is always this ugly message header placed on top of the mail content. Example: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Playing football in the afternoon Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 10:27:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Alice Adam <alice.adam@mail.com> Reply-To: Bob Builder <bob.builder@mail.com> To: Caesar Celuis <caesar.celuis@mail.com>, Daesar Deluis <daesar.deluis@mail.com>, Eaesar Eeluis <eaesar.eeluis@mail.com>, Faesar Feluis <faesar.feluis@mail.com>, Gaesar Geluis <gaesar.geluis@mail.com> CC: playground@mail.com, referee@mail.com With increasing amount of recipients this header will take advantage of the white space while damaging the readability. Would it be possible to remove/hide this whole text block? Maybe there is some about:config to automatically prevent Thunderbird from adding this header when forwarding messages?

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Stans
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All of that header is deletable. Simply select it all and delete like you would any block of text.

Brabella
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Stans said

All of that header is deletable. Simply select it all and delete like you would any block of text.

But this is not performed automatically.

Imagine a Thunderbird client without worker: The company sends mails to this computer and wants to forward them to her employees. The forwarding process is done automatically, but Thunderbird always adds this header in it.

Stans
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You could do it by writing your own add-on. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3096187/thunderbird-scripting

I don't think a pre-made solution exists as at now.