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Technically, email supports markdown, it’s just not used by anyone. Email was invented many years before markdown, so it’s probably just more of a legacy thing than anything else.
Oh, I understand all that. I just don’t like it.
It does support markdown???? I always thought it didn't.
The protocol supports anything. You can send an email in PDF format. And I don’t mean with a PDF attachment, I mean the email itself is formatted as a PDF.
The default that’s required to be supported by every client is
text/plain, and the standard on top of that istext/html, but you can providetext/markdowninstead if you want. If the client doesn’t support displaying markdown, it will probably let the user save it like it was an attachment. But, since you don’t really know what client the other user is using, the only really safe thing to send istext/plain.You can also provide both markdown and plain text (and even just use the same text, since markdown is perfectly readable) inside a
multipart/alternative. Then every client should be able to display it.Thank you for sharing this knowledge.