privacy problem: text/html parts pull in network resources

[David Bremner]

Austin Clements <aclements at csail.mit.edu> writes:

> I have a fix for this on shr buried deep in an old patch series that I
> never got back to: id:1398105468-14317-12-git-send-email-amdragon at mit.edu
>
> For shr, the key is to set shr-blocked-images to ".".  However, IIRC,
> in the current notmuch message rendering pipeline, mm overrides this
> variable with something computed from gnus-blocked-images.  That said,
> I'm not sure why gnus-blocked-images isn't *already* taking care of
> this, but that's probably the place to start digging.
>


My particular maze of twisty configuration ends up in mm-shr, which
seems to ignore shr-blocked-images, but rather pay attention to
gnus-blocked-images and gnus-inhibit-images (does this seem like a bug
to anyone else?)

At least in emacs 24.4 the default value of gnus-blocked-images is set
to a function gnus-block-private-groups, which is probably unhelpful for
us.

Customizing gnus-blocked-images to a regex does seem to have some
effect. Also, setting gnus-inhibit-images to non-nil value.