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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Changing senders photo sent with e-mails

martinfs - Mar 16, 2008 - 2:39 am

I use Apple Mail 2.1.3 to send all my e-mail and a recipient of e-mails from me has told me they contain a picture of me.

I would like to stop this happening and/or change the picture, but I can't find the settings nor where the picture is stored; I've tried clearing the check-box in my .mac preferences control panel, but the photos still get sent, and in any case the photo showing in the .mac preference cp is NOT the one the recipient is seeing.

Can you help please?

Martin

tubajensen - Mar 16, 2008 - 3:56 am

You can edit the picture if you open "Address Book". Go to your own name and click "Edit", double-click the icon/picture to change it. I'm not sure you can completely delete it. My guess is that by default the icon that appears in your "Address Book"/"Mail" apps is the same one as chosen in "System Preferences"/"Accounts".

Allan

martinfs - Mar 16, 2008 - 4:52 am

Thanks Allan.

I've found I can delete the picture from Address Book. After double-clicking on the picture, reducing the size of the frame in the edit window, then dragging the image outside that frame, does the trick. I haven't restarted my machine yet, but the picture - it happens to be the same one - is still there in "System Preferences"/"Accounts".

I've also cleared the photo from my .mac account preferences.

However, all the copies of the photo I've deleted are the same and NOT the one the receipient reports getting. I did find a copy of this second photo on my old laptop that my wife now uses and have deleted that now, but can't believe that was the one that's going out.

Incidentally, the recipient uses a PC and - I believe - AoL mail. I'll have to ask if there is any way the photo that's appearing could possibly be stored on that machine, but I doubt it.

I'll add more info when I get it.

Martin

tubajensen - Mar 16, 2008 - 7:55 am

Thanks Martin, for your interesting feedback. I'd like to know what you find out about AOL.

Allan

martinfs - Mar 17, 2008 - 8:41 am

The recipient tells me it appears on e-mails viewed through AOL but not through MS Outlook. Suspect photo has become embedded in users AOL address book or similar. Cannot find another AOL user quickly, so will close ticket.

Martin