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by jolmg 2476 days ago
I wonder what content-types email clients support besides HTML and plaintext. Would any support mp3, mp4, markdown, org or odt?

EDIT: Hmmm found this[1], and this[2]. They talk about using TROFF, TEX, Postscript, voice data, etc. I wonder if something like that ended up implemented somewhere.

EDIT 2: I opened an issue[3].

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1049

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc767

[3] https://github.com/hteumeuleu/caniemail/issues/23

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E-Mails typeset in TeX sounds amazing! Right now you'd have to compile your TeX code to PDF/PS/DjVu and send that, which is far from perfect.
And imagine opening an E-mail that contains a PhD paper requires 15 minutes of compilation...