Re: Personal picture in OS X Mail program

FROM : Mike O'Connor
DATE : Sat Nov 16 22:14:31 2002

On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 05:39  PM, Justin Lundy wrote:

> There is an package on Versiontracker.com called MailPicture, which
> claims to be able to do this, but I have not tried it.

MailPicture works great, everyone should use it! I have both a .mac
picture set up, and MailPicture. Both point to the same picture. .mac
people should see my .mac picture (except I'm not sending this with a
.mac address today). Other people who do not have .mac but have
MailPicture, should see my MailPicture.

For .mac, the Mail program sees a person has a .mac address, so it goes
to that guy's area on .mac and if he has a picture, it grabs and shows
it (and caches it on your disk.) You set this up in the Mail part of
.mac on the web.

For MailPicture, they add a bundle to the Mail program to do it. You
see a new pref pane in Mail. You need to put your picture on the
Internet somewhere - anywhere public where people can get it via a URL.
You tell the URL to MailPicture. When you send mail, it adds an extra
header line that specifies the URL where your picture is. [If you show
all headers in this message, you should see it.] When you receive such
a message, the Mail program recognizes that header, goes out and gets
the picture, and displays and caches it. Very smooth, very cool, free,
.mac not required.
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