Markdown or another simple markup in posterous?

That's great -- and I'm looking forward to the other features you've got coming too!!

I'm dying without this feature! It's all that's keeping me from switching full-time.

I second Zach Smith.

please add this soon. posterous is so easy via mail. But going to the we interface just to add lists and nice links is such a bother.
i really think this feature is mandatory. And markdown is so damn nice.

Markdown support would be most welcome, thanks for looking into this Gary.

For me also would be a big spin!
I like posterous and its simplicity... something like markdown or textile would be great!

The "coming weeks" prediction up top was 6 months ago. suck. I was hoping to show up and have it in place already like a lucky, moochy late arrival. Any new ETA on this? As a fellow dev, I'd guess that his can't be a difficult implementation. Is it a question of the load of the additional process?

+1 for a Markdown interpreter.

+1 for Markdown also.

I use regular html markup and it works fine for me. This includes links, lists, and style formatting.

I found that html is working for me, too. This solves my need for markdown. Anyone else needing a markdown or textile should give html or "rich format" in your email client a try.

I get inconsistent results with rich text in my mail client.

And sure, I could write HTML, but then... posterous is supposed to be simple.

Markdown combines simplicity and control. I hope they still consider it as a future addition.

Yo, hi guys, any idea when these kind of markup or perhaps Textile as well get's supported via e-mail?

I developed an SMS-to-Posterous app (actually started as an SMS-to-Twitter app), for Philippine based mobile phone users, called @tweetitow (http://tweetitow.com).

I was also able to add support for multi-part concatenated SMS messages, and have added support for Textile markup. It's amazing how easy it is use the markup when you compose posts on your mobile phone.

Here's a sample output:
http://markjeee.com/i-have-just-added...

It would be nice to support an easier markup like Markdown or Textile on e-mail as well. So i can use my phone to send one via the Wifi connection.

One reason why having these markups are better than outright HTML is that, sometimes composing HTML e-mails results into messy HTML code. For example, when you indent a paragraph, sometimes an editor uses a text-padding, instead of using a blockquote -- which is in fact easier to style. :)

As a Posterous newbie, I've had my own little internal conversation going on about HTML markup.

As you can see, I've figured out that HTML markup works just fine as long as email is sent as plain text.

Seeing as how comments are not post-editable though, I can still see a case for Markdown or Textile. They are both just quicker to type and less prone to typos that screw up the markup such as a wrongly typed closing tag (I'm quite prone to typing <?foo> instead of </foo>!).

"Garry Tan, Official Rep, replied 10 months ago: I want to do this soon. We've got a few other features in the queue, but expect it in the coming weeks. "

There's a lot of weeks have gone by since Garry posted this. Is this still on the queue?

+1 for markdown support in emails. I'd love to write my emails with markdown rather than switching to HTML-Mode.

Nice! I'm glad this is still coming up. I was starting to get worried.

Textile!

Textile++

Wow, 10 months ago this was "coming soon". I just realized how awesome this really would be. Please come soon...