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How to make Mail display Address book images Apps
Since Jaguar appeared, Mail no longer appears to display the images used in Address Book. A workaround is as follows.

Create a 64x64 pixel image of the person in question. Save it in your Pictures folder (or wherever), so you have easy access to it. Name your image file using the following convention: name@company.com.tiff (it is important to use the extension .tiff, not .tif). Drag your chosen images onto the relevant address cards in Address Book. In your home folder, go to Library. In the Library folder, create a new folder called Images. In the Images folder, create a new folder called People.

Copy your 64x64 tiff files to this new People folder. Mail should now see the images, provided they have been named exactly as the e-mail addresses in your address book (with the extension of .tiff at the end). If you have friends with more than one e-mail address, duplicate their image file and rename it with the alternative e-mail address using the naming convention above.

[robg adds: This works as described, and I hadn't realized how much I'd been missing the images in Mail. You'll have to quit and restart Mail to see the new pictures, though, as it seems to cache them at startup.]
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How to make Mail display Address book images
Authored by: bluehz on Apr 07, '03 10:43:59AM
You can also use the MailPictures plugin.

http://www.nikwest.de/Software/

Get the stable version 2.2 or a new beta version that was released today.

On a related note - I have been getting a few msgs that appear with customized icons in the upper right hand corner of the header in msgs (Mail.app). Is this being done with MailPictures (I have it installed) or is this some form of the X-Face type header used in newgroups, etc. I have looked at the "raw msg data" for the msg and am seeing no indication of either. Any one know how to do this?

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How to make Mail display Address book images
Authored by: NikWest on Apr 07, '03 01:24:40PM

If images appear in Mail without having MailPictures installed, then the sender is using a .mac account. I don't know of any other way images show up in Mail automatically.

In general solutions for getting an image into Mail are:

- Sender is a .mac owner
- MailPictures bundle is installed and the sender also is using MailPictures.
- You have put images manually into Images/People as described in this hint.


Greetings

Dominik



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How to make Mail display Address book images
Authored by: june on Apr 07, '03 11:29:16AM

if you already have photo of your contact in adressbook you can use AddressImageExtractor, it wil do the job for you, simple and quick.

http://www.versiontracker.com/mp/new_search.m?productDB=mac&mode=Quick&OS_Filter=MacOSX&search=AddressImageExtractor

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How to make Mail display Address book images
Authored by: nvdingo on Apr 07, '03 12:32:22PM

Contrary to this post, my mail.app still shows images for people in my address book. never stopped. yes, i have everything up to date.



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How to make Mail display Address book images
Authored by: randykato on Apr 07, '03 01:33:11PM

yeah, i never lost the images either. no need for 3rd party software or specific methods like mentioned here (i've always just used little jpegs - mainly for small file size).



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Can't get it to work
Authored by: sergeantmudd on Apr 07, '03 02:36:04PM

Alright, I used AddressBookExtractor to save all the images in ~/Library/Images/People, then I restrated Mail and nothing happened. What am I missing here?



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How to make Mail display Address book images
Authored by: below on Apr 07, '03 06:19:32PM

Er, how do I set mail.app to display any images? Where would I see them?

Clueless,

Alex



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How to make Mail display Address book images
Authored by: bservo on Apr 08, '03 12:37:31AM

I had to quit Mail.app and relaunch the application in order for the images to appear.

The images will appear in the upper righthand corner of the message pane.

Apparently the image format and file extension do not need to be the same! I left the images in JPEG format but gave them a .tiff extension since .jpg and .jpeg don't seem to work. The OS figures out how to read them (a thumbnail shows up in the Finder's preview pane) and the Mail app seems to be able to read them, too. Hooray for file extensions! :P



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How to make Mail display Address book images
Authored by: TigerKR on Apr 08, '03 01:30:17AM

This also did not work for me.



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How to make Mail display Address book images
Authored by: Power Factor on Apr 08, '03 12:09:36PM

It seems Apple have changed (or just stuffed up) the way Address Book handles pictures and didn't change Mail.

Address Book pictures have names like "7AEDA3A9-D2C7-11D6-AD9F-0050E44EC748" (this is still a tiff image) and Mail uses <email address>.tiff



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I am the smartest man alive
Authored by: sergeantmudd on Apr 08, '03 06:37:02PM

Okay, I figured it out. Capitalization matters, the name of the picture has to be capitalized exactly the same as the email address.



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How to make Mail display Address book images
Authored by: GORDYmac on Apr 09, '03 10:31:15AM

I'll add one aesthetic element. Fade the edges to white on your icons. I think it looks much better in Mail and Address book. I hope the next iPod update uses these icons.



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How to make Mail display Address book images
Authored by: Power Factor on Apr 22, '03 12:53:58AM

This actually works for all users just put it in the /Library instead
of ~/Library



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same image, 2 email addresses, differently displayed
Authored by: magnamous on Jun 07, '03 05:23:03PM

I have a tiff image of a friend which i labeled using one of his email addresses. shows up in mail just fine. copied the image. renamed it to the other email address he has. the second image appears in mail as very small (somewhere around 20x20 pixels), but the first one still displays fine. Anyone else having a problem like this? it's driving me nuts!

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