MailWash uses the built-in capabilities of your web browser to make a working application that sits in a small (less than 4KB) web page that you can save to your computer.

Use MailWash to quickly remove unsightly >'s, like in this email: 

> > > > > THE SMELL OF RAIN
> > > > >
> > > > > A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the
> > > > Doctor
> > > > > walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. Still 
>groggy
> > from
> > > > > surgery, her husband David held her hand as they braced themselves
> > > > > for the latest news.
> > > > >

and get clean text like this: 

THE SMELL OF RAIN
 
A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the Doctor 
walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. Still groggy from 
surgery, her husband David held her hand as they braced themselves for the 
latest news.

MailWash can also be used to quickly remove forced line breaks from text copied from web pages or previously sent email messages.

Requirements:

  • Your browser needs to be Firefox or Internet Explorer 4 or higher, or an equivalent, and you must have JavaScript enabled.
  • You need to know how to select text and copy & paste.

Download or view: (Remember, it's just a web page that you can save to your computer.)

How to use:

  1. Copy the text from an email message and paste the text into the top box in MailWash.
  2. Press the button corresponding to the wash cycle you want. The clean text appears in the bottom box.
  3. Press the mail it button and paste the clean text into the body of the email.
  4. That's it! To clean another email message, press reset to clear both boxes in MailWash.

Tips:

·  Keyboard Shortcuts: (For Macintosh, use the Command key (the one with the apple) instead of Ctrl key)

Function

Press both keys

Select All

Ctrl + A

Copy

Ctrl + C

Cut

Ctrl + X

Paste

Ctrl + V

 

·  Send your family and friends a link to this page so they wash their mail before sending it to you.

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To download the Mailwash Icon to your hard drive:

 

1. Click Here.

2. Right click on the image.                   

3. Click on “save image as,” and save it to your download file on your hard drive.

 

To put a link to Mailwash on your desktop:

 

1) Right click on the desktop

2) Click on New/Shortcut

3) Paste in the link http://home.comcast.net/~dlsesh1/mailwash.html

4) Click on Next and type in Mailwash

5) Click on Finish

6) Right click on the Mailwash Icon

7) Click on Properties/Change icon/Browse

8) Find where you downloaded mailwash32.ico

9) Click on it and finish with OK, OK.

Last updated: July 24, 2004 by Desklamp LLC

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