Displaying the attached email with MH-E (using "emacs -Q") or Gnus leads to a hang in shr (CPU is pegged, I waited for 5 minutes before giving up). The HTML looks pretty gnarly, but Emacs 25.3 displays the message just fine, with maybe a pause of a couple seconds. In GNU Emacs 26.0.90 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars) of 2017-10-27 built on alto Repository revision: 50f711e7fab149d11da8c5caa61ee0b5e6c89bf1 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11604000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.9 (jessie) Recent messages: Auto-saving...done Scanning +inbox...done Quit Mark set Mark saved where search started Mark set No more undeleted messages Processing deletes and refiles for +inbox...done Auto-saving...done Making completion list... 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