Fancy plugin works well for receiving html messages. Responding to html messages is confusing for the sender. It might be a good idea to have Fancy for simple html in outgoing mail. Quoted html might render Fancy instead of plain. Might also be good for novice users to be able to bold, italic, font size, font color, background color. Attaching an html document works fine yet novice users find this too difficult. Having a simple Fancy integrated with Claws would allow the simple functions that they expect.
The Fancy plugin is an HTML rendererer, and only that.
Indeed. This is not going to happen not sooner nor later. Think it more as a viewer for HTML feeds or newsletters.
Thanks for your replies. If you are saying that you don't want to bloat claws-mail with pretty rubbish like html, I completely agree with you! I would rather leave claws-mail as it is than have it become more cumbersome. Fancy is a great solution for incoming mail. I think the outgoing solution could be even simpler - and would satisfy the main remaining complaint I've heard and read about claws-mail. I have workarounds for the problem (using either geary or LibreOffice), so it really isn't critical. I can think of a number of small enhancements to claws-mail that would make the (scripted) workarounds even better. A plugin might be best. The question wasn't really about html, but versatility. This is claws-mail's strength! I can think of a number of minor enhancements to claws-mail that would make integration with geary (or a small smtp-only extraction of geary) more transparent and elegant. Just for when someone wants it.