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>If you receive a message that can’t be authenticated, you’ll see a question mark in place of the sender’s profile photo, corporate logo, or avatar. This makes

by finnn 11y ago

>If you receive a message that can’t be authenticated, you’ll see a question mark in place of the sender’s profile photo, corporate logo, or avatar. This makes it sound like I (the sender) can set the image displayed if I am using DKIM. Is that the case? Or is it only if I have DKIM and have a Google account with that email?

lstamour 11y ago
Gmail uses an associated Google+ profile for authenticated emails, so you need both for it to work going forward, I presume. To get started, check https://www.google.com/business/ https://www.google.com/business/ Outlook uses Facebook and Twitter, if you have these contacts integrated. Yahoo does this too: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/04/smart-contact-cards-arrive-in-yahoo-mail-featuring-automatically-updated-contact-info-and-links-to-social-profiles/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/04/smart-contact-cards-arrive-... There really should be some kind of standard or mail header though. :) Come to think of it, services could support a vcard mime-type attachment, perhaps? Except that likely wouldn't support URLs to profile photos... Maybe we've identified a missing feature of DKIM? ;-)
- kps 11y ago
  > There really should be some kind of standard or mail header though. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face
  - Navarr 11y ago
    X-Image-URL is neat - but how do we trust it? Ensure the header is DKIM signed?
- thrownaway2424 11y ago
  Gmail will prefer the image you include in the sender's contact info, if you manage your own address book, and it only falls back on Google profile pictures if you don't have one (which is the common case).
- caf 11y ago
  You could have your client look up the sender at gravatar?
  - wiml 11y ago
    I use claws on some machines (it has a different set of annoyances than Thunderbird) and it has the feature to pull senders' images from https://www.libravatar.org/ https://www.libravatar.org/ . The occasional mailing list participant gets an image that way and, amusingly, the occasional spammer as well.

by finnn 11y ago

lstamour 11y ago

Gmail uses an associated Google+ profile for authenticated emails, so you need both for it to work going forward, I presume. To get started, check https://www.google.com/business/ https://www.google.com/business/ Outlook uses Facebook and Twitter, if you have these contacts integrated. Yahoo does this too: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/04/smart-contact-cards-arrive-in-yahoo-mail-featuring-automatically-updated-contact-info-and-links-to-social-profiles/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/04/smart-contact-cards-arrive-... There really should be some kind of standard or mail header though. :) Come to think of it, services could support a vcard mime-type attachment, perhaps? Except that likely wouldn't support URLs to profile photos... Maybe we've identified a missing feature of DKIM? ;-)

kps 11y ago
> There really should be some kind of standard or mail header though. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face
- Navarr 11y ago
  X-Image-URL is neat - but how do we trust it? Ensure the header is DKIM signed?
thrownaway2424 11y ago
Gmail will prefer the image you include in the sender's contact info, if you manage your own address book, and it only falls back on Google profile pictures if you don't have one (which is the common case).
caf 11y ago
You could have your client look up the sender at gravatar?
- wiml 11y ago
  I use claws on some machines (it has a different set of annoyances than Thunderbird) and it has the feature to pull senders' images from https://www.libravatar.org/ https://www.libravatar.org/ . The occasional mailing list participant gets an image that way and, amusingly, the occasional spammer as well.