[X Newbies] Picture Stamp on email messages?

[Barry]

Thanks for the info Norm. I saw that article too and was doing a little 
testing before posting it. Here's what looks to be the case:  It seems 
that in order for other people to see a photo, you must have a .mac 
account, and you must have a photo enabled from the .mac webmail 
preferences. Setting a photo in User Accounts or Address Book enables 
you to see that particular photo on mail you sent (and then received), 
but does not transmit the photo to other people.

Now there is probably no shortage of people on this list who already 
knew this and could have saved me a lot of time and trouble, but alas, 
I was curious and couldn't wait for their responses. :-) thanks to 
Birgit Rhoads and Bob Geiger to helping.


On Apr 3, 2004, at 10:44 AM, Norman Cohen wrote:

> Here's the link for the information from Applecare to enable your user 
> picture in .mac for viewing in Apple Mail.
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=153286
>
> These pictures are stored in your computer at 
> 	~/Library/Caches/com.apple.addressservices/Photos/<username>@mac.com
> where <username> is replaced with each .mac user from whom you've 
> received an e-mail while reading mail with Mail.app. If the user photo 
> has been changed but it hasn't updated, you can delete the file for 
> that user at the location listed above (see 
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42987 for details).
>
> HTH,
>
> Norm
> Norman Cohen
> nacohen at mac.com
>
> "Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the 
> intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work."
> Gallagher
> On Apr 3, 2004, at 5:20 AM, Barry wrote:
>
>> You will always see your picture on mail sent to yourself. What we 
>> need to confirm is whether your mail sent to other people displays 
>> your picture. Your email that I am responding to did not have a 
>> picture with it. Neither did Birgit's email.
>>
>> Birgit, I believe that the Address Book may play a role in this too. 
>> If you don't already, you might try creating an entry in Address Book 
>> for yourself and setting the photo there, then see what happens. 
>> Also, I know that photos sent by other people and received by your 
>> Apple Mail program are cached in one or more of the following 
>> locations on your computer (on my system at least - 10.3.3 Panther):
>> <user home directory>/Library/Caches/com.apple.Addressbook & 
>> com.apple.addressservices. From what I've read, removing one of these 
>> cached files will allow any photo being sent to to now take 
>> precedence and show up rather than this cached photo for that person.
>>
>> I will keep looking into this as long as nobody else comes up with 
>> the definitive answer, simply because my curiosity is piqued. :-)
>>
>
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