How to turn off Markdown formatting in Emails?

Question

Notifications emails (like those saying you receive an answer to your question), are arriving with all the markdown tags on them. The blockquote (>) tag is particularly disrupting, as it is the fact that there are no line breaks. Any change there is something I can do to prevent this (like sending emails in plain text)

Answer 1

check out this code in qa_suspend_notifications() function inside qa-app-emails.php:

            return qa_send_email(array(
                'fromemail' => qa_opt('from_email'),
                'fromname' => qa_opt('site_title'),
                'toemail' => $email,
                'toname' => $handle,
                'subject' => strtr($subject, $subs),
                'body' => (empty($handle) ? '' : qa_lang_sub('emails/to_handle_prefix', $handle)).strtr($body, $subs),
                'html' => false,
            ));

 'html' => false, means that notifications are sent as plain text. if you wish to use HTML in notification mails you can make a plugin to override it or make a core hack and change it's value to true. also I think q2a-email-formating plugin can help you with this issue.

if by Markdown you didn't mean HTML, but things like: ^ or \n then I think q2a-email-formating plugin would still solve the issue.

have a nice day, Towhid

Comments

Great. Thanks Towhid. I'll test it out soon.