[_urga]

How about this?

  Hello
  ...
  ...
  Thanks!

[LaGrange]

I want to have embedded links, tables and images (but only ones that are attachments), which plaintext isn't sufficient for. On the other hand, I want _only_ that, and notably they all provide a nice and obvious client-side failover for TTY software without requiring attaching a 2nd copy of the text.

[tiborsaas]

HTML in email helps readability, titles, lists, tables does help the recipient.

[DocTomoe]

Nothing that cannot more elegantly be solved by using MarkDown ...

... or common sense.

[jraph]

I don't want to parse Markdown when I read emails.

(and I don't have common sense either)

[lolknuth]

Or you could say at a plaintext email first paragraph: You have to use your own fun/gun for this, and just type in plain text.

[DocTomoe]

... which is perfectly ok, because MarkDown nicely degrades to plain text.

[KingMachiavelli]

As long as the varient of Markdown supports tables, vanilla markdown is laking in that area.

[tgsovlerkhgsel]

Which e-mail client can render markdown?

[collinmanderson]

I take the hybrid approach:

    <b>Hello</b><br>
    ...<br>
    ...<br>
    <em>Thanks!</em>