Achim Gratz writes: > As I said, I don't even know why Gnus decides it should treat this mail as > an Org file. From the sources of Gnus, it appears that it should only do > this if the MIME type was text/x-org. Rainers mail didn't have this MIME > type nor was it a multipart MIME mail that had such a part, yet Gnus > triggered the buffer with "Org" as the major mode, which seems to indicate > that the MIME type must somehow have been inferred. I can prevent that > using orgstruct-mode instead, but as I proposed already there should be a > "safe" variant of org-mode (a derived mode perhaps) that doesn't load any > axtra files and doesn't run any source blocks. Of course, Gnus then should > use this mode (it is only meant for proper fontification anyway, which I > suppose must be possible without firing a whole major mode). What about this patch? The change in Gnus is then trivial (see other patch).