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Markdown would better serve 95% of the email I see.
by aendruk 4y ago
Markdown would better serve 95% of the email I see.
- wahern 4y agoIndeed, Markdown is literally derived from the markup conventions invented for usenet and e-mail messages.
- joshuamorton 4y agoThe markdown spec includes the full html spec (https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html)
- dont__panic 4y agoAgreed wholeheartedly. I'd love to see email clients embrace markdown rendering (and sending) as an alternative to HTML. For stuff like links, headings, bulleted lists, tables, etc. in a single page, markdown is perfect. Emails rarely exceed the complication of a readme, and markdown works amazingly for those. Even better: it remains totally readable in its raw unrendered form. So you're not really forcing anyone else to adopt your syntax, just... nudging.
- pabs3 4y agoMy MUA (GNOME evolution) supports sending markdown emails.
- aendruk 4y agoThat’s a compelling feature. Can you have it actually send as `Content-Type: text/markdown` or does it still convert to HTML for now?
- pabs3 4y agoIt offers three markdown mail composition options: Markdown (text/markdown), Markdown as Plain Text (text/plain), Markdown as HTML (text/plain and text/html). Doesn't seem to be a way to have text/markdown and text/html though. It also renders incoming text/markdown emails in a HTML-like way using WebKit, rather than showing the raw markdown data.