Plain text parser for update mails

[RS_Jelle]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

The emails are sent out as plain text. These mails are intended to inform a user about an update, there is no need to have anything then text in them.

Indeed, but that's also the purpose of the plaintext parser
I don't mean switching to HTML mails or so.

If a coder copies BBCode by mistake in it, it will be stripped to a readable plaintext thing (font's are removed, lists are replaced with a star in front of each items, bold becomes two stars around a word, ...). Now you see all those ugly BBCode tags in the mails.

With the parser coders can also just copy the announcement from the thread without the need of removing all markup. So adding the parser, which is a three line of code thing, only has got advantages.