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OS:                Linux
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Sometimes I need to use email to pass programs *snippets* of code.

Moreover, I need to add simple *structure* to my email, but I need to send **plain** text messages (no html).

A very good compromise, IMHO, will be to have a reStructuredText_ backend: AFAIK it's the *lighter* markup language, and it's perfectly readable as it is (so it's ok for text-only email readers [1]_), but will look better in kmail.

.. [1] Hey, all this text it's a valid rst file and you can read it :) try at `http://rst2a.com`_

.. _http://rst2a.com: http://rst2a.com


As kmail already support html messages, a simple way will be to call the rst2html.py script (contained into the docutils_ package).

A mid-term really big plus will be to use sphinx_ to add **also** syntax-highlight into the source code (C, C++, python, java...) snippets written into the rst / email message. You can so turn a simple text in a full fledged highlighted literate program (or programming text...)

.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
.. _docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net
.. _sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/index.html