First, I'd like to thank Tavis for starting this discussion. I am very pleased to see I am not the only one struggling with this.
On 29Aug22 13:28-0400, Logan Rathbone wrote: > FWIW, the solution/compromise I ended up using was to compose > multipart/alternative mails with mutt, sending a very simple HTML mail > and a standard hard-wrapped text-based mail as well. So mobile > mailreaders can read it perfectly, and desktop users can read the > plaintext version correctly as well. > > Believe it or not, mutt actually has very sophisticated functionality to > achieve this, and even comes with a sample script called markdown2html > to assist with this. I tend to write plaintext mails using a subset of > markdown *anyway*, so it works out very well. > > And since sending such mails would obviously annoy certain people (eg, > the users of this ML!) I have mutt set up to prompt if I want to send as > multipart/alternative defaulting to no, as in: > > set send_multipart_alternative = ask-no Thanks for that pointer! I am what you might say a true believer in text/plain. OTOH, the world is very diverse, and looking only into one direction makes me feel missing other people out there. So I tend to like this multipart approach. -- Bastian
