[Semi-OT] Markdown rendering extension for Thunderbird

[Christian Köstlin]

On 2021-12-11 06:07, David Gileadi wrote:
> I use Thunderbird to read this forum and have gotten jealous of the 
> Markdown formatting that the website supports but that Thunderbird 
> doesn't. So I made [an 
> extension](https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/render-markdown-messages/) 
> to render Markdown-formatted messages in Thunderbird.
> 
> Unfortunately this doesn't allow sending messages with Markdown 
> formatting from Thunderbird—that would probably belong in the 
> [Markdown-here](https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/markdown-here-revival/) 
> extension but can't work yet because Thunderbird currently [doesn't 
> allow modifying the content-type 
> header](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1717221) (bug filed 
> by Vladimir). My extension is limited to reading Markdown-formatted 
> messages.
cybershadow came up a while ago with a nice hack around this issue:
https://gist.github.com/CyberShadow/ccb3813d5953e5e7f2c53fe43275f986

I put it in a ready to use dub project (but did not put it to the registry).

Kind regards,
Christian