Update email templates to use markdown rendering

[theskumar]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Using plain text emails have a lot of limitation around formatting, esp. since the some of content in emails are CMS provide (e.g. extra content for applicant when the application is submitted).

In development, controlling the whitespace rendering is bit of pain.

Is your feature request related to an existing functionality? Please describe.

Sending emails out from Django

Describe the solution you'd like

We keep the same template but pass them over to a markdown renderer to generate a html version, and keep the text version for plain-text. Given markdown is plain-text friendly, you get the best of both the worlds.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Separate html template and plain text template, this doesn't work well given some of the content in the email is CMS generated.

Priority

• Low priority (annoying, would be nice to not see)

Affected roles

• Staff
• Applicants
• Reviewers
• Partners
• Developers
• General public

Ideal deadline

Date when you'd like to see this accomplished and a reason, if appropriate.