Any plans to allow showing avatars in messages list? I didn’t see it listed on the roadmap.
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So far, this hasn't been prioritized because there is no public Google API to fetch photos for an address that isn't a contact 😞 – so most users just would see placeholders. But if you'd like to have it as an option, please submit this at mimestream.com/roadmap! Thanks!
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Interesting. I'd actually be ok with placeholders or initials (MS, AC, GL etc). I just really like having a large glancable visual indicator of which emails are interrelated in my messages list.
Will submit to the roadmap!
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Fair enough, and yeah we'd do standard macOS monograms. If there was API to get the Google contact photos, we would definitely have this in there by default. I suppose if you are reasonably diligent with putting photos into Contacts, it could be good too. Thanks for submitting!
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Makes sense. Out of curiosity, what allows an email app like Spark or Airmail to get the contact photos? But that can’t be implemented for Mimestream? - Sidenote: I absolutely love how lightning fast Mimesteam is 😁
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Mimestream currently gets photos from Apple Contacts. I think those apps use Gravatar.com, which requires sending email address hashes to that service, and it's something we'll think about adding as an opt-in thing.
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