Plain Text Emails Don't Work

[neyre]

Should support plain text in addition to HTML emails.

[neyre]

@patfair Can we add this to the roadmap? Can't send emails from some email clients, including iOS.

[patfair]

It's more an issue that if we take plain-text emails, we'd have to intelligently inject some kind of HTML formatting to make it look the same as it does in text. Otherwise, all the text will be mashed together when wrapped with our HTML template. At the time of initial implementation, I decided it was way easier to just reject those messages.

[neyre]

I feel like if we wrap the plain text in a paragraph tag, it'd probably be good enough. Goal should be to reduce barriers to use so that it just works and doesn't require a user manual of how to send to the mailing list. Right now, it doesn't just work, as evidenced by Aaron's latest email.

[neyre]

@AdamMikacich Could you look into this?

[AdamMikacich]

Just to confirm, this issue involves this block of code, correct? I've never written in Go before, so is there a way I can set this up locally to write a solution?

[neyre]

Yeah, it's that.

I'm not sure if you can easily setup locally, but you can test with the debug feature:

cheesy-mail/mail_message.go

Line 197 in 5aae0a2

// Returns true if the subject line contains "DEBUG".

@patfair ?