[MlMt] Gravatar-hack for MailMate

[Bill Cole]

On 3 Mar 2019, at 6:22, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 1 Mar 2019, at 1:35, Aslak Raanes wrote:
>
>> On 21 Feb 2019, at 15:35, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>> I still haven't integrated MailMate with images from Contacts, but I 
>>> realized that it was fairly easy to use the 
>>> [Gravatar](https://www.gravatar.com) service.
>>
>> One alternative could be use 
>> [Libravatar](https://www.libravatar.org/) and its [federated 
>> api](https://wiki.libravatar.org/api/) which makes it possible to run 
>> your own avatar server.
>
> I didn't know that one. It does work:
>
> 			{
> 				formatString = "<img style=\"float: left; height: 60px;\" 
> src=\"https://seccdn.libravatar.org/avatar/${from.address.#md5}\"/>";
> 			},
>
> (But it appears to be slower which emphasizes that MailMate does not 
> cache these images.)
>

PSA:

This is also a reminder that no matter which "service" of these you use, 
this "feature" is literally telling a third party who's email you are 
reading, every time you read an email.

HARD PASS!

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Bill Cole
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