Email in should strip Fwd's and Re's when creating a new topic

I think most people forwarding a message to the forum will follow email conventions, which include prepending "Fwd: " and "Re: " to forwards and replies. However, forum content uses a different convention of not including the prefixes. Therefore, I think the email receiver should do the conversion.

Some Discourse importers already support removing these prefixes:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/ae114a6ee8f2e4f9abd1bbd536d34e6bc55fea23/script/import_scripts/mbox/settings.yml#L46

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