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Implement support for Libravatar and/or X-Face #814

Closed bnvk closed 1 year ago

bnvk commented 10 years ago

In addition to getting contact pictures from Gravatar, we should also support getting pics from https://www.libravatar.org , the X-Face header, and other alternate sources.

BjarniRunar commented 10 years ago

For context, here is some info about X-Face and related efforts to add photos to e-mail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face - I basically am all for implementing any/all that are in active use at the moment.

ryneeverett commented 7 years ago

I looked at several other email clients that support x-face and they all use compface and netpbm to convert it into an image. I doubt we want to add those as mailpile dependencies, but given the low resolution of x-face images, I would think it would be feasible to convert into a bitmap format that can be displayed in html (bmp?) without too much of a performance cost.