Buried deep in Mail.app‘s Resources folder is a file called senders.tiff. If you view it in Preview, you will be greeted by pictures of nine people (well, eight people and an insect).

I don’t know for sure, but it’s my hunch that these are the programmers who work on the development of Apple Mail. You could hunt it out on your own computer (they’re hidden away inside every copy of Apple Mail), but here they are:

Does anyone know who they are? If they are the programmers, we should pass the hat around and buy them a beer. Or possibly a piña colada.

UPDATE: A source close to Apple tells me that these are (or to some extent, were) the Apple engineers who work on Mail. And a nice job they do too ;-)

The senders.tiff file functions a bit like NeXTSTEP‘s X-Faces did in NeXTMail. When one of these people sends you an email, Mail calls their image from the file and displays it in the message.

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