muttdown 0.1

Sendmail replacement that compiles markdown into HTML

muttdown
========

`muttdown` is a sendmail-replacement designed for use with the [mutt][] email client which will transparently compile annotated `text/plain` mail into `text/html` using the [Markdown][] standard. It will recursively walk the MIME tree and compile any `text/plain` or `text/markdown` part which begins with the sigil "!m" into Markdown, which it will insert alongside the original in a multipart/alternative container.

It's also smart enough not to break `multipart/signed`.

For example, the following tree before parsing:

- multipart/mixed
|
-- multipart/signed
|
---- text/markdown
|
---- application/pgp-signature
|
-- image/png

Will get compiled into

- multipart/mixed
|
-- multipart/alternative
|
---- text/html
|
---- multipart/signed
|
------ text/markdown
|
------ application/pgp-signature
|
-- image/png


Configuration
-------------
Muttdown's configuration file is written using [YAML][]. Example:

smtp_host: smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port: 587
smtp_ssl: false
smtp_username: [e-mail]
smtp_password: foo


If you prefer not to put your password in plaintext in a configuration file, you can instead specify the `smtp_password_command` parameter to invoke a shell command to lookup your password. The command should output your password, followed by a newline, and no other text. On OS X, the following invocation will extract a generic "Password" entry with the application set to "mutt" and the title set to "[e-mail]":

smtp_password_command: security find-generic-password -w -s mutt -a [e-mail]

NOTE: If `smtp_ssl` is set to False, `muttdown` will do a non-SSL session and then invoke `STARTTLS`. If `smtp_ssl` is set to True, `muttdown` will do an SSL session from the get-go. There is no option to send mail in
plaintext.

Installation
------------
Install muttdown with `pip install muttdown` or by downloading this package and running `python setup.py install`. You will need the [PyYAML][] and [Python-Markdown][] libraries, as specified in `requirements.txt`.

Usage
-----
Invoke as

muttdown -c /path/to/config -f "from_address" -- "to_address" [more to addresses...]

Send a RFC822 formatted mail on stdin.

If the config path is not passed, it will assume `~/.muttdown.yaml`.




[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[YAML]: http://yaml.org
[PyYAML]: http://pyyaml.org
[Python-Markdown]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Markdown
[mutt]: http://www.mutt.org