Email gets personal with Gravatar and MessageFaces
January 02, 2008 | Posted by apokalyptik
It’s been brought to my attention that there is a very cool Thunderbird plugin called MessageFaces which, after you enable the option in the plugin preferences, will show gravatars in the header section of the email messages you view. We happen to think that this is terrific, and one more example of how Gravatar can be used to bring a touch of personalization where there would otherwise be nothing but the cold feel of a whitewashed internet. Thanks very much to Jens Bannmann for writing this very cool plugin!
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silveira Says:
January 2, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Amazing, Gravatar is really a great thing.
I hope in next WordPress version we have a native integration with Gravatar.
Jeff Says:
January 2, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Integration could be as simple as including the WordPress gravatar plugin with the default install. The trick will be getting a critical mass of commenters/users to add their own image. I can’t think of any way to make it easier that it currently is, so I guess we just have to wait.
ChaosKaizer Says:
January 3, 2008 at 12:05 am
I agree with silveira, I would like to see thats happening.
cyclingplatypus Says:
January 3, 2008 at 1:54 am
Add me to that list.
nerrad Says:
January 3, 2008 at 4:16 am
Now if google would look at implementing gravatar with gmail - that, I’d like
fatfingur Says:
January 3, 2008 at 5:14 am
That’s a very good plugin! And I agree with the guys above me too. I hope it becomes native in WordPress.
ジェイソン (Jason) Says:
January 3, 2008 at 8:28 am
This is quite interesting. I wonder what it would take to modify Evolution to do the same.
Time to start examining code….
3mind Says:
January 3, 2008 at 9:32 am
yeah, native integration sounds fantastic … and hopefully gmail will make a move in that direction too.
iPhone Hellas Says:
January 3, 2008 at 9:46 am
Great plugin! Thanks for bringing it in my attention
Budak Bengkalis Says:
January 3, 2008 at 10:45 am
good idea, i like that
James Says:
January 3, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Yep, I’ll 3rd that. Native it people. The less plugin tweaking we need to do for essential things the better.
Merry New Year.
farfromfearless Says:
January 3, 2008 at 2:10 pm
It would be really nice to see a desktop version of the Gravatar tool (upload/crop/manage); something that could be quite universal to implement — I think that would really increase the adoption of Gravatar as a service and concept.
stesio54 Says:
January 3, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I agree with silveira too!
Theory Says:
January 3, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I wish it wouldn’t load the default gravatar every time somebody doesn’t have one. Not showing anything is preferable! It also shunts the DispMUA icon about, which is very irritating and could be resolved simply by reserving the required space from the moment the message is opened.
But I still like it.
Dougal Campbell Says:
January 3, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I’ve been using the MessageFaces add-on for over a year. It’s great on mailing lists where lots of people already have Gravatars
storymode Says:
January 3, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I use Thunderbird quite often than I ever expected to. I’ll have to look into this myself.
Thanks for the announcement!
lordthaddius Says:
January 3, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Wow awesome! I love Thunderbird, and here is yet another reason to enjoy it.
sempre più gravatar | Stesio54 Says:
January 3, 2008 at 5:36 pm
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Bollywood Says:
January 3, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Yep, Ide love to see it integrates with messengers now
gestroud Says:
January 3, 2008 at 7:58 pm
As long as we also have the option to turn it off.
Dr Small Says:
January 3, 2008 at 8:21 pm
I agree too. This is awesome
jandal Says:
January 3, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Same, native integration please!
=-)
sheida Says:
January 3, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Kooooool
semplon Says:
January 4, 2008 at 6:22 am
Cool. with that i can know the sender
Humberto Valentin Says:
January 4, 2008 at 8:43 am
I only have 2 days in my site and is work perfect, and the integration with other applications will be the next step
Indigo Says:
January 4, 2008 at 11:09 am
Would be great if this could happen in Outlook too!
gestroud Says:
January 4, 2008 at 2:04 pm
LOL!
Tom Says:
January 4, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Gravatar should be one of basic plug-ins of every blog.
stefan Says:
January 5, 2008 at 8:22 am
esta chida,bueno me boy astaluego
knuspar Says:
January 5, 2008 at 11:01 am
As much as it sound slike a nice feature, do you REALLY have the need to personalize your e-mails in such a way?
kOoLiNuS Says:
January 6, 2008 at 9:46 am
tried the plugin a while ago … it was a little “heavy” on the program performances, I’ll try it again, anyway !!
Le Says:
January 7, 2008 at 3:21 am
Id love this to be native in wordpress. Wish there could be a hack to do this in gmail as thats what I use… but gmail does have something like this but uses its own profile images.
polkadotcreations Says:
January 8, 2008 at 3:19 am
I’ve been using the Thunderbird plugin for a few years, and I think it’s great! I only wish more of the people who emailed me actually *used* gravatars. I mentioned gravatars to my blog readers a month or so ago, and most of them hadn’t been aware they existed.
Rune Says:
January 8, 2008 at 8:59 am
If you’re a Mac user, you have this. It’s a plugin for Apple Address book. And Mail.app uses the pictures from Address book!
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RG
Fredrik Wendt Says:
January 8, 2008 at 10:19 am
I, on the other hand, really miss this for OpenID. Where’s the ability to add my openID-URL and have that associated with my gravatar?
Joel Says:
January 8, 2008 at 5:26 pm
This is very nice. This should be standard in all e-mail clients.
Sylvain Nomao Says:
January 10, 2008 at 9:36 am
I’d like to talk to you about Nomao, so if you could give me your email address, that will be great…
Thxs
Sylvain
deuts Says:
January 12, 2008 at 5:08 am
Forget outlook. Long live Thunderbird!
Alessandra Says:
January 12, 2008 at 1:35 pm
não estou conseguindo… pq??
Ailton Says:
January 14, 2008 at 8:10 pm
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Gravatar se expande más alla de los blogs Says:
January 16, 2008 at 12:16 am
[...] está expandiéndose. Ahora hay disponible un plugin para el Address Book de Leopard y hasta uno para Thunderbird, para que cuando escribas un mail aparezca el avatar de la persona a la que se lo estás [...]
DJ Says:
January 19, 2008 at 1:22 am
thats cool
waroengkopi Says:
January 21, 2008 at 9:53 am
test
CARLOS Says:
January 23, 2008 at 12:01 am
Acho legal o Thunderbird e acredito que com este plugin ficou melhor ainda !!!
Awake Says:
January 26, 2008 at 1:23 pm
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EGG_1013 Says:
January 26, 2008 at 7:13 pm
ola komo se ace para poner la imagen??
EGG_1013 Says:
January 26, 2008 at 7:15 pm
komo se ace para poner imajenesSS=)
David Gravereaux Says:
February 2, 2008 at 5:11 am
I just installed it and I love it!
Change the default search URL (extensions.messagefaces.gravatar.url with about::config) to this:
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=%ID%&size=%SIZE%&default=img::blank
And empty entries won’t display the default gravatar icon.
Vidar Hokstad Says:
February 20, 2008 at 3:09 pm
This brings back memories of the X-Face: header. For those who don’t know, X-Face: lets you inline a tiny image in your outbound mail headers, and quite a few clients support it, though it used to be more widely supported years ago.
Nicki Brøchner Says:
March 3, 2008 at 11:17 am
What about mail for Mac OS X ?? ;o)
JohnJones Says:
April 22, 2008 at 7:44 pm
pull down icons for the address book ?
omarm Says:
May 5, 2008 at 9:07 am
test!!!test