Open Bug 1280912 Opened 5 years ago Updated 1 month ago

Support text/markdown (RFC 7763) for composing email

Categories

(MailNews Core :: MIME, enhancement)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
MIME
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/601.6.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1.1 Safari/601.6.17

Steps to reproduce:

Receive an email with `Content-Type: text/markdown` or compose an email using Commonmark/Markdown punctuation markup like *emphasis*, `code` or 

- lists.

Note that MailMate supports `text/plain; markup=markdown` instead, so that should probably also be supported.


Actual results:

text/plain


Expected results:

When the software detects punctuation used for markup purposes in the Compose window it should offer the user to send this email or all future emails with the proper content type header.

If the software receives a mail with such a header, it should render it accordingly, maybe converting it to HTML as an intermediary step.
Severity: normal → enhancement
OS: Unspecified → All
Hardware: Unspecified → All

Let's limit this to composition.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: Support text/markdown (RFC 7763) for composing and reading email → Support text/markdown (RFC 7763) for composing email

Really like the idea! If could also be available for task and calendar composition, would be great.

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