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MailPictures 4.0b

MailPicturesMailPictures is an old favourite.

I think it is the first addon for Mail.app that I ever installed.

It’s a plugin that adds a personalising touch to your emails by adding an “X-Image-Url:” header to your messages (like Mail.app used to have in its early NeXTMail days).

This header links to your .Mac picture or to an image stored in your own web space somewhere. You can also choose to use an X-Face string instead, generated by dairiki.org’s Online X-Face Converter.

Then the recipient of an email from you gets a picture of you in your email, even if they don’t have your image in their Address Book. A personal touch.

MailPictures also allows you compose emails in raw HTML.

Dominik Westner has released a new version (4.0b) that works with Tiger.

WARNING: MailPictures plays havoc with MailTags. The two just don’t get along. And the problem persists (for me at least) with the new version of MailPictures. A great shame.

You can get this plugin (and earlier versions for Jaguar and Panther) from his web site. It’s freeware. Check it out!

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3 Responses to “MailPictures 4.0b”

  1. SPeedY_B says:
    January 19th, 2006 at 2:24 pm

    It’s a nice idea, however the fact that the recipient of your mail also requires the plug-in, defeats the point of it really :/

  2. Tim says:
    January 20th, 2006 at 12:58 am

    Hmmm…. Sure, the best thing would be to fix Mail so that it recognised the new header, plugin or not.

    But I don’t think that the plugin is defeated. People who care about the personalising touch that the plugin offers will install it, and see the pictures. Those who don’t, won’t and won’t miss the pictures.

    Plus there is the option of the raw HTML composition.

    What kills it for me is the conflict with MailTags.

  3. Alderete says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    The author’s website appears to be gone. Does anyone know if MailPictures is still available anywhere online, and if it is compatible with Leopard or Snow Leopard?

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