rendering in text, how to stop web trackers

rendering in text, how to stop web trackers

[Andrew]

I generally use gnus in a terminal emulator (emacs -nw).
I'm getting more and more HTML only mail, but I really prefer
straight monochrome text.

My ideal behavior is:
  if there's a text part to a message, show that
  if there's only html, show that
     but (in order to stop tracking) do not load anything from the net 
     and if there are URLs/images in the message, give me an easy
       way to view, copy & paste the URL

I've got html as a discouraged alternative:
(setq mm-discouraged-alternatives
      '("text/html"
        "text/richtext"))

I'm rendering with w3m:
(setq mm-inline-text-html-renderer
      'mm-inline-text-html-render-with-w3m)
(setq mm-text-html-renderer 'gnus-w3m)

How do I tell w3m to not fetch anything and just render what came in the
message?  Or should I use shr or something else to render?

  --thanks for any clues
  --a

Re: rendering in text, how to stop web trackers

[Byung-Hee HWANG]

akb+lists.ding@mirror.to (Andrew) writes:

> I generally use gnus in a terminal emulator (emacs -nw).
> I'm getting more and more HTML only mail, but I really prefer
> straight monochrome text.
>
> My ideal behavior is:
>   if there's a text part to a message, show that
>   if there's only html, show that
>      but (in order to stop tracking) do not load anything from the net 
>      and if there are URLs/images in the message, give me an easy
>        way to view, copy & paste the URL
>
> I've got html as a discouraged alternative:
> (setq mm-discouraged-alternatives
>       '("text/html"
>         "text/richtext"))
>
> I'm rendering with w3m:
> (setq mm-inline-text-html-renderer
>       'mm-inline-text-html-render-with-w3m)
> (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'gnus-w3m)
>
> How do I tell w3m to not fetch anything and just render what came in the
> message?  Or should I use shr or something else to render?

C-g

if i wrong, forgive me, and thanks!

Sincerely, Gnus fan Byung-Hee

Re: rendering in text, how to stop web trackers

[Adam Sjøgren]

Andrew writes:

> How do I tell w3m to not fetch anything and just render what came in the
> message?

I think that is supposed to be the default, looking at this variable:

,----[ C-h v mm-w3m-safe-url-regexp RET ]
| mm-w3m-safe-url-regexp is a variable defined in ‘mm-decode.el’.
| Its value is "\\`cid:"
| 
| Documentation:
| Regexp matching URLs which are considered to be safe.
| Some HTML mails might contain a nasty trick used by spammers, using
| the <img> tag which is far more evil than the [Click Here!] button.
| It is most likely intended to check whether the ominous spam mail has
| reached your eyes or not, in which case the spammer knows for sure
| that your email address is valid.  It is done by embedding an
| identifier string into a URL that you might automatically retrieve
| when displaying the image.  The default value is "\\‘cid:" which only
| matches parts embedded to the Multipart/Related type MIME contents and
| Gnus will never connect to the spammer’s site arbitrarily.  You may
| set this variable to nil if you consider all urls to be safe.
`----

?

> Or should I use shr or something else to render?

I think shr renders HTML better, but it probably various a lot with the
emails.


Oh, I have also set mm-automatic-display to (remove "text/html"
mm-automatic-display) :-)


  Best regards.

    Adam

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 "LUFTVAFFEL!"                                              Adam Sjøgren
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