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4.1 How do I get pictures of people from remote sites to appear in Mail.app and NewsGrazer?

You can do this in the following ways.

• Mail In /LocalLibrary/Images/People put a tiff (64x64) in the form of person@remote.site.domain.tiff (all lowercase). In /LocalLibrary/Images/People/passwd add an entry for the person:
  person@remote.site.domain:*:-2:-2::/nodir:/noshell

  (person and sitename need to be all lowercase as well) In the future anytime you get mail from the person their picture should appear.

  You can include an "aliases" file in /LocalLibrary/Images/People too. This allows you to use the same picture for somebody that might send you mail from accounts on many different sites, or for those people whose letters use several different routings.

  To do this, you include entries in this local aliases file like so:

  bkohler@ucrac1.ucr.edu:bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu gonzo.ucr.edu!bkohler@uupsi2.uucp:bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu

  There should then be a .tiff file called bkohler.gonzo.ucr.edu.tiff.

  There can be no CAPITAL LETTERS in this file. So even if the address in the From: field looks like gonzo.ucr.edu!bkohler@uupsi2.UUCP, keep the letters lowercase in the aliases file. As always, you have to restart Mail before these changes take effect.

• NewsGrazer

  In /LocalLibrary/NewsGrazer/People put a tiff (64x64) in the form of person.remote.site.domain (all lowercase). This is a different naming convention from what Mail uses.

  There is a large archive of some 4000 or 5000 pictures prepared for this purpose. The name of this archive is Faces3.tar.Z and it is about 4.1 MBytes large. Currently it is available from several anonymous ftp sites (e.g. sonata.cc.purdue.edu in: /pub/next/graphics/Images../../../Images/people)

  That image archive also contains a script which automatically creates proper alias and passwd files.

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