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Re: Scripting Mail.app
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Re: Scripting Mail.app


  • Subject: Re: Scripting Mail.app
  • From: <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:24:54 -0800

On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 10:11 AM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:

On 1/14/02 9:50 AM, "cricket" <email@hidden> wrote:

You can put pictures in the Address Book associated with a given user's
email address. So, the image doesn't go out with the message, but if the
recipient is using Mail and has a picture in their Address Book
associated with the email address, Mail will display the picture. As far
as my picture, that's confidential. :)

I'm not using Mail at the moment, but - as I understand it - people using
Mail who do not have you (Cricket) in their Address Book are still seeing
your picture in your messages. Or does this mean that they DID previously
add you to their Address Book, complete with picture? How would they have
had your picture to add to their Address Book if "the image doesn't go out
with the messages" and if they never knew they had added your picture to
their Address Book? Is this the first example of a self-executing Mac file?
I hope not.

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Paul Berkowitz
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It is an easter egg. Apparently 3 or 4 other programmers have similar easter eggs in Mail.app, but I have not found out who. If you open any message in a text editor & change the "From" line of the header to:
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