Gravatars meet Thunderbird.. but I dont

... in rather cool way

After my Gravatar ramblings Simon got in touch to let me know that while the Gravatar 0.2.1 extension by Daniel W. Steinbrook no longer worked with Thunderbird v1.5.0.5 there was one that did... Message Faces 1.1 by Jens Bannmann so I trotted along to check it out.

Downloading extensions for Thunderbird is a little different to Firefox, Thunderbird requires a hands on approach with a manual install whereas Firefox tends to do it all for you, you just hit Install Now and it does exactly that. With Thunderbird you right click Install Now, then select Save Target as, spring open Thunderbird then hit Tools > Extensions > Install, work your way to the download location, select the .xpi file then hit Install... it sounds long and windy I know but it's just how it is

So I grabbed Message Faces 1.1, manually installed messagefaces-1.1-tb.xpi then headed to Tools > Extension Options > Message Faces...

I had a wee poke around the options, it's cool that if you don't want, or don't have a Gravatar, you can upload an image from your computer, for me personally though my mission was to check out the Gravatar support, so I selected that as my option hit OK and then wondered what else I was meant to do... the short of the long is simply nothing

I fired off an email to one of my... numerous ... email accounts, and used Thunderbird to collect it.. sure enough there was my Gravatar

Then I wondered if anyone not using Thunderbird could actually see it, so I shot of an email to my GMail account.. email arrived but no Gravatar.. hmm.. seems it's not supported there. Next was my Yahoo! Mail account... email arrived.. nupe.. no Gravatar...hmm... Mail on my Mac.. nupe.. Thunderbird on my Mac... nupe.. Message Faces installed on Thunderbird on my Mac... nupe...Thunderbird Mac to Thunderbird Windows... nupe... *cough*

I'm picking I broke it.. or I'm missing something.. any clues would be appreciated

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KZ_THE_SEEKER said:

... Hey there Bee I had a read up on Gravatar and the like. From what I gather it won't work with any other clients but Thunderbid. The reason being I think is there is some code in it that email clients (be it browser based or OE or Eudora etc), will not accept. http://www.gravatar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4 (Post 10 and post 12) - if you note they say you need an extra plugin for the other desktop based clients, so it would make sense to me that browser based clients would also require some sort of "tweak". As for it not working on Thunderbird Mac I think again thats because of the Javascripting thing it uses...that is to say they are not directly convertible. Just my guess and two cents.

24 August 2006

bee said:

aww bless ya :wub: ty for that kz guess i'll just have to wait... patiently... and see what the future holds... thought it would at least have travelled across the platforms to my mac as the extension was also available for it... but just goes to show how little i know

24 August 2006

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