Re: rendering HTML: how to disable

[Bernardo]

>> LinkedIn etc) in their (HTML formatted) email
>> include URLs which i suspect are used to track users
>> when opening them
>
> Try this:
>
>     (setq mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/richtext"))

ah, much better, thanks

>
> Otherwise doesn't it work just by not following the
> URLs?

AFAICT the page pointed by URL is loaded as soon as soon as the message
is opened, to the rejoicing of spammers