Markdown in email / news posts

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Monday, 23 October 2023 at 12:03:04 UTC, Arafel wrote:
> On 23/10/23 13:47, Imperatorn wrote:
>> Just a quick comment. When posting code, be sure to check the 
>> "Enable Markdown" checkbox to the right of the send button.
>
> Unfortunately I use Thunderbird and the newsgroup, not the web 
> interface, so I'm not sure how I can enable markdown there. If 
> anybody knows (perhaps adding a header or something?) I would 
> be glad to do it.
>
> Alternatively, wouldn't it make sense to enable it by default 
> so it would apply to all the messages coming from email / the 
> newsgroup?

There isn't an easy way to do it. Vladimir wrote a gist that does 
it as a proxy server, which I used for a long time. But now with 
the new update, thunderbird is just completely borked for me, and 
I don't feel like rebuilding the data, so I'm using the web forum 
for now.

But in case you want to try it, it is here: 
https://gist.github.com/CyberShadow/ccb3813d5953e5e7f2c53fe43275f986

-Steve