Format quotes in plain text e-mail correctly

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Fedora (@mattdm) is getting ready to move from Mailman to Discourse. So, I’m trying out how it fairs when interacting with it from the comfort of my mail client.

Currently quotes use tags [quote] and [/quote] when a reply contains a quote. This should be formatted according to RFC3676, The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt)

For a more elaborate example please take a look at Quoting in e-mail notifications does not comply with e-mail standards - Fedora Discussion

Should linking be a bad idea, please let me know, and I’ll copy my post from Fedora Discussion over here.

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One more thing: the footer is formatted like this:

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[Visit Topic](https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/docs-meeting-agenda-2023-04-26/81634/1) or reply to this email
to respond.

To unsubscribe from these emails, [click
here](https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/email/unsubscribe/9dfc65684da26863c35cd2f6d852d5da9b937364a8ff1c389aa4315d
6af6a483).

This extraneous markup should be dropped in text mode. (Minimally, just dropping the parenthesis would be a good step. “Visit Topic https://some.url/asdf to respond” is quite readable.)

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Is there a possible workaround for this? Some setting somewhere?

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That’s exactly what I was afraid would happen. Half a year down the road and no response whatsoever from anybody from Discourse.

I’m afraid this will not be solved / implemented anytime soon. My conclusion: e-mail integration is a half baked courtesy. It will never be a first class citizen. And thus Discourse is not suitable as a replacement for mailing lists.