Sending Markdown-based mailings that look pretty
Sending nicely formatted emails that are rendered correctly in (all) mail clients is a tedious task. To avoid spending a lot of time manually drafting emails through the provided Microsoft Outlook mail client, I wanted to see whether I would be able to parse Markdown and render it into a good-looking mailing leveraging the Markdown standard(1). All without the need to manually edit the output before sending.
- Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular markup languages.