RFC 7764 – Guidance on Markdown
What I would really like is to end up in a situation where email clients all support text&#x2F;markdown. It really hits the sweet spot between plain text and HTML. It has enough structure to show a nice outline, and the triple back-tick syntax is great for marking bits of text as code.<p>All without specifying <i>how</i> everything should look. You can read it as unformatted text, or let the mail client format everything in a style you like. This is sort-of like HTML without CSS (using the client&#x27;s default stylesheet), but also very well readable as unformatted text, and free from the abuse of HTML email.<p>Alas. More and more companies are giving up on plain text email (even though this is required by the standard), and simply send you a hyperlink to click if you have plain text as your viewing preference for email.