[Ham-Mac] Re: Ham-Mac digest, Vol 4 #259 - 16 msgs

Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:14:32 -0500

Hi Jason:

Sorry for the long delay. Work has been very busy and I am also just 
getting ready to write my basic Amateur Radio licence here in Canada 
(studying when I can).  So with any luck by March I will be "on the 
air" with my Mac by my side of-course! :-)

So the picture thing has it roots from the old NeXT mail. That system 
used a special directory which you could place picture in with the name 
of the file matching the person e-mail address. You can still do this 
but it is rather a pain collect everyones picture.

The folder was and is ~/Library/Images/People  (~ means your home 
folder).  The image must be in TIFF format.  eg. [email protected]

Later version of Mac OS X 10.1, 10.2 had the ability but was largely 
untapped.

About that time smart fellow decided write a mail plugin to not only 
bring it back but enhance this ability. MailPictures was born (Although 
trying his site suggested it was down).  The idea was to upload you 
picture to your mac.com account and then a URL would point receivers to 
that URL to get that picture.
Ie it would add a head to the mail X-mailpicture: 
http://homepage.mac.com/username/mypicture.tiff
<something like this anyway>

Now it seems that this is just a feature with Mac.com accounts. That is 
in the webmail section of mac.com you can upload a small picture and 
any mail sent from this account get the picture feature if you turn it 
on. And I have it on!

There are lots of neat plugins for Apple's built in mail program 
(mail.app).  You can check out a large list here. 
http://www.tikouka.net/mailapp/

Just a word of caution... Apple has yet to define a specific detailed 
solid set of API for mail plugins.  So make sure it tested on you 
version of OS 10.1, 10.2, 10.3.  Changes have been made to all three.
Why?  Mixed opinions but most I thing Apple would not like to have 
plugins as this could (yet very unlikely) have issues like Microsoft 
has with Outlook and exchange and viruses/spam etc....

You still have to authenticate many of these pluggin installers, but 
well better safe than sorry I think it party line with mail app 
writers. <this is an educated guess>.

Similar plugin to MailPicture (I hope his website comes back up) is 
SenderPix it reroutes the call to get the picture from the usual 
~/Library/Images/People to the picture field in your Address Book.
Certainly much handier but still you need to receive initial picture 
from someone (or make you own :-)
Tip: You can grab picture from iChat if they are on you buddy list.

I don't have MailPicture or SenderPix installed so this it just a 
feature of my mac.com account at this time.  Also I only think people 
using Apple Mail application get see this picture, although I have 
heard Eudora Pro may have added this on the Mac as well.

It's just for fun, "great fun" actually! <hi hi>

Hope this helps!

Steve Hellyer

--- soon to be VE3...something...something...something ;-)

On Feb 4, 2004, at 4:05 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Message: 10
> From: Radio <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Ham-Mac] Re: Ham-Mac digest, Vol 4 #258 - 6 msgs
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 19:54:21 +0000
> To: [email protected]
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> Steve,
>
> A bit off topic, but how do you get your pic to appear in your mails. i
> am using Apple mail and cannot see how to do it.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jason
> G7BSK
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 11
> From: John E Bastin <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:04:45 -0500
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Ham-Mac] Your picture in your mail
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> On Feb 3, 2004, at 2:54 PM, Radio wrote:
>
>>
>> A bit off topic, but how do you get your pic to appear in your mails.
>> i am using Apple mail and cannot see how to do it.
>
> In Panther, you go to System Preferences and select "Accounts". In that
> panel, select your account and then select the "Picture" tab. There you
> can insert the picture you wish to use in various places.
>
> I don't remember for sure in earlier versions of OS X, but I believe
> you could do the same thing in Jaguar, but it was in your account
> selection in System Preferences, rather than "Accounts." I _think_ I
> remember that correctly.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> 73,
> J o h n   B a s t i n           K 8 A J S
> [email protected]         [email protected]
>           http://www.qsl.net/k8ajs
>
>
>