Remove hyperlinks when forwarding an email message.

When replying to or forwarding a message in Rich Text using Apple Mail, sometimes the blue hyperlinks are a nuisance. One can remove each link individually. There is no Applescript to remove all of them.

One way I use to remove all links at once is to...

Select the link-spangled text area of your new message

⌘-C (Copy the area)

⌘-N (Create a fresh blank message)

Click in the empty text area of the fresh blank message

⌘-V (Paste the link-spangled text)

⇧-⌘-T (Make plain text - the blue of the links will disappear)

⇧-⌘-T (Make rich text - so as to make it like it was)

⌘-A (Select the now-linkless text)

⌘-W (Back to your new message, link-spangled area still selected)

⌘-V (Paste the linkless text)

Of course, the new text will have lost all formatting along with the links.

--Gil