Subject: bug#11317: Built-in rendering hangs with very long multipart/alternative HTML mail

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:20:24 +0200

William Gardella <[email-masked]> writes:

> Once daily, via nnimap, I receive a very long multipart/alternative
> mail, a digest from a news-translation service (an example is attached).

Yes, it's a known problem.  The new built-in HTML renderer handles
nested tables quite badly.  It basically tries out a lot of permutations
on table widths to find a satisfactory rendering, and that leads to
exponential time usage when the tables are nested deeply.

Something has to be done to that bit of the code, but so far nobody has
come up with a better table rendering algorithm.

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