I've recently switched to Mutt, and am using vim as my main editor, which is working quite well. My only minor annoyance is that I would like to, in addition to the various highlights and such done my vim's mail filetype, also get syntax highlighting for markdown.
Google has proven not to be up to the challenge, so I was hoping I might find someone here with some further knowledge of the powers of vim.
I could just set the filetype to be markdown for /tmp/mutt*, but the mail filetype does some magic beyond merely the body of the email as far as I can tell?