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I was one of those people wondering why I would use this and I have sent code via Gmail without problems. Personally I generally prefer plain text email. But I could imagine trying this out. Nice to see some positive endorsements.

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If I am not mistaken, this is plaintext email. Traditionally, email had bold, /italics/ and _underline_. Markdown just extends on this. The danger is, however, that people continue to create their own Markdown extensions and we end up with emails, that are full with those "control-codes", which makes them ugly for anyone, not having a transformer in their email-client (aka: those, who read the plaintext)

You're mistaken. This converts the markdown HTML and sends an HTML e-mail. There wouldn't be much point if the receiver required a plugin they're unlikely to have. http://markdown-here.com/features.html

Usually Mail clients send mails as multipart/alternative with both a text/html and text/plain.

It makes sense to keep the entered markdown as the text/plain part. But if this looks ugly, then the plain text view won't be as pleasant.

PS.: I hate all companies that think their newsletter only needs text/html, and put a "Please read me with an HTML-compatible mail client" as text/plain.

Most html mail I get just links to a jpg poster in crappy resolution.

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