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

Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:42:20 +0000

Hi Steve,

Firstly good luck with the exam and the VE3 call, hopefully we might 
work one day.

Just a quick mail to say thanks for the detailed reply, i will read it 
in more detail later, but just wanted to thank you for the response.

Maybe the next time I post a message my pic will be in it-:)

73's

Jason
G7BSK

On 9 Feb 2004, at 20:14, Steve Hellyer wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
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