[MlMt] When MailMate opens mail from a MailMate user

[Kee Hinckley]

When it comes down to it, the main reason I'm using MultiMarkdown is 
that I need to be able to reply to HTML emails without losing the HTML. 
I can't blow away the table my manager sent me in a reply. I don't need 
to edit it--it's Exchange, nobody inline replies--but I can't let it get 
nuked--especially since that screws up the entire assumption that if you 
have the most recent message, you can delete all the others.

So what is necessary for MailMate to be usable in this environment?

Ideally, the ability to top-reply to a mail message and have the HTML 
being replied to appear in a pane in the bottom, with the two merged 
when I send the message.

Until then, I do the following.

```
{	name    = 'HTML to SemiCanonical';
	events  = ( 'email.reply', 'email.forward' );
	input   = 'html';
	output  = 'canonical';
	select  = "content-type.type = text and content-type.subtype = html and 
from.domain = 'tivo.com'";
	script  = '#!/usr/bin/env bash\n/Users/nazgul/bin/t\n';
	uuid    = '5DF480C9-2400-427A-9B01-52391F84DC7B';
	disabled = 0;
}
```

and the script

```
#!/usr/bin/env bash

tidy --quiet yes --wrap 0 --input-encoding utf8 --output-encoding utf8 
--force-output 1 --show-warnings no | \
     perl -e '
         while (<>) {
             s/<\/?(head|meta|html|!DOCTYPE|title)[^>]*>//ig;
             s/<\/?html[^>]*>//ig;
             s/<body/<div/ig;
             s/<\/body/<\/div/ig;
             print;
         }
     '
```

That brings up some manageable HTML in the window, which MailMate then 
prefixes with '> ', which MultiMarkdown then turns into wrapping with 
block quote tags. Last time I tested, sundown didn't handle quoting HTML 
that way. If that changed, this would work with it as well. (For a 
while, I had the script generate a set of editor actions which selected 
the content of the message, removed the '> ' and wrapped it with 
blockquote tags, but that was more than a little hacky.

Of course, this is all hacky, but otherwise I wouldn't be able to use 
MailMate at work.

P.S. Benny, have you considered sending the CSS you use to display 
messages along with the HTML message? So that things like blockquotes 
appear to the receiver the same way they appear in MailMate, even if 
they don't have MailMate.
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