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

Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:51:07 -0500

I thought all you had to do was just select a picture for your OS X 
account in System Preferences -> Accounts. When I copy myself on sent 
email, I see my picture. Perhaps you can advise me if my pic is not in 
my email.....

Although I have been know to be wrong from time to time...     ; )

73 de n9se

Marty Ray

On Feb 9, 2004, at 3:42 PM, Radio wrote:

> 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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