Answering the age-old debate: HTML or plaintext emails? Both!
Write email in markdown, and convert to multipart MIME that works impeccably in graphical and console mail clients.
- Creates a conservative ISO/IEC 15445:2000 HTML representation, which is set as the preferred multipart alternative for graphical clients.
- The text alternative is reflowed at 72 characters to look good in standard console mail readers.
- The text part also uses format=flowed, so it will shrink on narrow screens or terminal splits.
- Fenced code blocks in the markdown are added as inline attachments with the appropriate MIME type. This makes them easy to download/save from the message.
- URLs are listed at the bottom of the text message in a special
text/uri-listinline attachment, and referred to with short codes like[0],[1]... in the message text.
Written in portable C99. The only requirement is the cmark library to parse markdown.
# detect cmark and set up build flags
./configure
# then build md2mime
make./md2mime sender-domain.com < message.md > message.emailThe sender domain is required to generate a good Message-ID.
If the original message starts with headers, pass -p to preserve them. Send
the message using a program like msmtp:
msmtp recipient@example.com < message.email