Subject: bug#40676: 28.0.50; gnus locks when reading email

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 04:20:39 +0200

Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> writes:

> My crystal ball says you have one or more of the gnus-gravatar
> variables enabled, and you have a slow DNS, in which case customizing
> 'gravatar-service' to something other than 'libravatar will help.

Oh, deer.  I just tried

  (setq gnus-treat-from-gravatar 'head)

and the behaviour in Gnus is totally unacceptable -- it stops and thinks
for a second after rendering the header, and then renders the body of
the message.

This is a regression -- the new libavatar code obviously can't work this
way.  If it's taking a lot of time, it has to run asynchronously after
the rest of the article has finished rendering.

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