Easter Egg in Mail.app

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in Mac Software edited January 2014
There is a Easter Egg in Mail! Control-click on the Mail.app file and select Show Package Contents, then go to the Contents -> Resources folder. Find the senders.tiff file and double click on it to open it in Preview.



hehe.

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  • Reply 1 of 18
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    That's quite funny, and scary at the same time, especially the fact that you have the time and resources to find stuff like this. or something. it's meant in the nicest way, I think.
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  • Reply 2 of 18
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    Wow...this is the first one I can remember since there was a Damn! button in an error message.



    OS X needs more of these.



    Oh and this should probably be in Software...



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  • Reply 3 of 18
    oops



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  • Reply 4 of 18
    This has been there for a loooong time, but a few new pictures were added to that file and one or two removed when 10.2 was released.



    I thought everyone who's anyone knew about that.



    Moving to Software...
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  • Reply 5 of 18
    pb g3pb g3 Posts: 95member
    Can someone post a pic? I don't have X yet.
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  • Reply 7 of 18
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    How'd they make a multipage image? Is it a .tiff thing or can other images be multipage?
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  • Reply 8 of 18
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    it's a tiff



    thanks for moving, I wasn't sure where it belongs..
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  • Reply 9 of 18
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    I wonder if those images appear in the upper right corner of mails that you receive from them...
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  • Reply 10 of 18
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    yep, they do.
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  • Reply 11 of 18
    Then does it really qualify as an easter egg?
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  • Reply 12 of 18
    anybody know who these guys are?
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  • Reply 13 of 18
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    the team who created the Mac OS X Mail.app
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  • Reply 14 of 18
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    Wait, so we can have a "pic" of us when we send a mail to someone? Do they have to use Mail.app too to see it? That sounds like a cool feature, a way of a visual signature! Sorry, I'm very new to Mail, iCal, Address Book and the whole iLife thing. I'm slowly weaning myself off Office!
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  • Reply 15 of 18
    [quote]Originally posted by Aquatic:

    <strong>Wait, so we can have a "pic" of us when we send a mail to someone? Do they have to use Mail.app too to see it?</strong><hr></blockquote>Yes and yes. Actually, this feature has been around for ages and has been visible since 10.0, maybe earlier even (although you needed a plugin to add it to the headers back then, it *displayed* fine for folks that didn't have the plugin).







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  • Reply 16 of 18
    [quote]Originally posted by Brad:

    <strong>Yes and yes. Actually, this feature has been around for ages and has been visible since 10.0, maybe earlier even</strong><hr></blockquote>



    So, um, like, how do you do it?
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  • Reply 17 of 18
    <a href="http://www.nikwest.de/Software/"; target="_blank">http://www.nikwest.de/Software/</a>; has an explanation.



    [quote]While Mac OS X provides the core functionality of displaying images in Mail or iChat, it is limited to either pictures you manually have assigned in the AddressBook and to .Mac accounts. With MailPictures any email address can have an image and there is no need to manually assign an image to a person.<hr></blockquote>

    So, if you use .Mac and assign your image through the webmail prefs, any Mail.app user should be able to see it. Otherwise it will rely on whatever is in the receiver's Address Book. However, if both sender and receiver have this MailPictures plugin, then you can use a picture with any e-mail account and it should display fine.



    Clear as mud?
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  • Reply 18 of 18
    ...but this looks like an essential plug-in.



    Is there any reason in particular why I shouldn't download this and get everybody I know to do the same (I'm thinking problems with the next update of mail.app / 10.2.x)?



    And for that matter, why isn't this an option in mail already?
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