cricket tapped out this message on 6/18/2003 11:02 AM >We're talking about Mail, the built-in Mail application for Mac OS X. Yes me too. >There is no such preference. You might be talking about the contextual >menu on attachments within messages, where there is a menu item called >'View as Icon', which toggles to 'View in Place'. This has nothing to >do with user pictures, though, which appear in the upper right corner >of a received message. OK, same info, which was right but unfortunately not applicable to your situation. Offered with good intentions in any case. :-)