[kmail2] [Bug 473458] New: Add option to disable markdown-esque formatting of plaintext messages

[luna sophia]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473458

            Bug ID: 473458
           Summary: Add option to disable markdown-esque formatting of
                    plaintext messages
    Classification: Applications
           Product: kmail2
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Archlinux
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: message list
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: luna at unixpoet.dev
  Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 161008
  --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=161008&action=edit
Screenshot depicting formatting making text harder to read

SUMMARY

For plaintext emails, KMail applies Markdown-esque formatting to text
surrounded by at least **, --, and __ characters. The -- characters in
particular are problematic for technical discussion, as they create a
strikethrough effect. This makes it hard to read text like this: sockstat -u |
grep /tmp/ssh-

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open email using formatting characters listed above
2. Notice how it changes the appearance of the message in a way that makes it
harder to read
3. Observe there's no preference to disable this

OBSERVED RESULT
Commandline text (and other text using these characters for purposes other than
formatting) is harder to read, but there's no preference to disable this

EXPECTED RESULT
A preference is added which supports toggling whether to enable this
formatting. Alternately, removing the formatting feature altogether would be
acceptable as well; part of the point of plain text email is that it's not
handled specially and is presented as-is.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.7
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.108.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The email screenshot in the attachments is from the public
arch-general at lists.archlinux.org mailing list.

The Version field on the bug submission form doesn't let me select the version
I'm using; it only goes up to 5.23.90.

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