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If I am not mistaken, this is plaintext email. Traditionally, email had bold, /italics/ and _underline_. Markdown just extends on this. The danger is, however,
by zmix 9y ago
If I am not mistaken, this is plaintext email. Traditionally, email had bold, /italics/ and _underline_. Markdown just extends on this. The danger is, however, that people continue to create their own Markdown extensions and we end up with emails, that are full with those "control-codes", which makes them ugly for anyone, not having a transformer in their email-client (aka: those, who read the plaintext)
- daveFNbuck 9y agoYou're mistaken. This converts the markdown HTML and sends an HTML e-mail. There wouldn't be much point if the receiver required a plugin they're unlikely to have. http://markdown-here.com/features.html http://markdown-here.com/features.html
- J-Kuhn 9y agoUsually Mail clients send mails as multipart/alternative with both a text/html and text/plain. It makes sense to keep the entered markdown as the text/plain part. But if this looks ugly, then the plain text view won't be as pleasant. PS.: I hate all companies that think their newsletter only needs text/html, and put a "Please read me with an HTML-compatible mail client" as text/plain.
- jiggunjer 9y agoMost html mail I get just links to a jpg poster in crappy resolution.