Re: HTML Rendering

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Richard Hoskins <rmh3@alltel.net> writes:

> But you might not want those settings if you use w3 for other stuff, and
> besides, Gnus doing those types of things with mail reminds me of
> Outlook.

In which case you may want:

(custom-set-variables

 ;; Avoid text/html parts if possible (w3-mode is slow).  Also avoid
 ;; text/enriched, since it's often more difficult to read.
 '(mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/enriched"))

 ;; Buttonize text/html rather than display it automatically.  It's frequently
 ;; spam and I don't want to incur the wait to have it render.
 '(mm-automatic-display (remove "text/html" mm-automatic-display)))

That will skip the HTML entirely if it's in multipart/alternative, and
otherwise will show you the raw HTML with a button; if you want to see it
rendered, press "b" twice.

Getting the standalone bit working is even better of course, but the above
works pretty well for me.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>