Mark Sapiro writes:
No, Posting from HyperKitty without using the "Use email software" button is plain text only.
That surprised me. There is the possibility of enabling Markdown in the viewer, but that's not a real solution for atechnical users who are used to mousing around, and by itself doesn't enable attachments.
There is no plan to add any sort of rich text capability.
That doesn't surprise me. A number of things are possible, but I think that providing the mailto link give the atechnical user the best of both worlds: a quick text-based response or the comfort (? :-รพ) of their usual mail client. One constraint that we have is that many of our users value "no Javascript" quite highly, so just dropping in the Electron-based editor du jour is something we don't want to do.
By the way, Skip, if you decide that richtext followups are an important feature, earlier I mentioned EMWD's commercial offerings Affinity (for admin) and Empathy (for archiving). I don't know if Empathy offers more features for posting than HyperKitty does, but I encourage you to check with Brian Carpenter <brian@emwd.com>. These are commercial, closed-source (at least for now) offerings, but I believe rates are reasonable and support has a very good reputation.
Regards, Steve