GNU bug report logs - #11317
Built-in rendering hangs with very long multipart/alternative HTML mail

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Package: gnus;

Reported by: William Gardella <gardellawg <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:51:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 5.13

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: William Gardella <gardellawg <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 11317 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11317: Built-in rendering hangs with very long multipart/alternative HTML mail
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:20:24 +0200

William Gardella <gardellawg <at> gmail.com> 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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