# Mailing list mode: "Upload" links broken (?) in e-mails

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-upload-links-broken-in-e-mails/112354>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [March 22, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-upload-links-broken-in-e-mails/112354 "2019-03-22T17:50:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 6:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-upload-links-broken-in-e-mails/112354/12 "2019-03-25T06:44:31Z")

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> At the moment we simply ship the `raw` markdown to the `plaintext`  
> section of emails.

Having markdown in the body of e-mails is nice (some mail clients may  
prettify it), there are just a few kinks with the current format, as you  
mention.

> For example now text contents has stuff like:
> 
> ```plaintext
> [quote="codinghorror, post:2, topic:112354"]
> this is definitely a bug
> [/quote]
> 
> ```
> 
> This would probably be a nicer way of rendering this in a text email.
> 
> ```plaintext
> > this is definitely a bug
> URL-TO-QUOTE
> 
> ```

This is reason why I wrote my “Discourse article” extension to Emacs’  
Gnus mail client: the transformation of the Discourse quote format into  
regular e-mail citation format.

And then I added other things, and realized that except for a handful of  
transformations (including a header for the “Previous Replies” section  
in mailing list mode and separators for replies therein) I could hand  
off most of the rendering to markdown mode…

I would definitely welcome a more “canonical” markdown, if you will.

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