Newsbody will remove most of what you are trying to get rid of.
randy
Newsbody(free under GPL)
http://www.image.dk/~byrial/newsbody/
The program is used to remove headers, quotes, and/or signature from a
email or news message before invoking some other program (e.g. a
spellchecker) on the remaining part. Eventually the remaining part with
possible changes is again merged with the headers, quotes and/or
signature. It can e.g. be used to invoke ispell from Mutt's compose
menu to spell check only new text without quotes and signature. To do
this make a shell script with the command line:
"newsbody -hqs -n $2 -p ispell -- -x %f" and put
"set ispell=path/to/script" in your .muttrc.
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