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Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:

>>>>>> pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard):
>
>> [Florian Weimer]
>>> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>
>>> > Why don't we use emacs-w3m for converting text/html parts on Gnus?
>
>>> Using w3m might have some nasty security implications (much like the
>>> embedded Internet Explorer in Microsoft Outlook).
>
>> Please elaborate. :-)
>
> I'm guessing he's referring to the trick of spammers using HTML emails
> with <img> tags, to verify email addresses.
>
> (The URL in the "src" attribute of the <img> tag contains an unique
> identifier for a particular receipient address)
>

In that case, why do you use an html _browser_?

An html to text converter would be sufficient to display html mails. 

I use my own program (vilistextum) for this very purpose but html2text
should do as well.

http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/bhaak/vilistextum/
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mbayer/tools/html2text.html

Bye
Patric