20 Nov
Removing Address Book images in Mail
by Christopher Breen, Macworld.com
Reader Helga Beuing would like to depersonalize the email she sends. She writes:
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I have discovered that there is a petty representation of myself in the upper right corner of each email I send. I have no clue how that started and would like to know how to get rid of that picture.
The source of that picture is Apple’s Address Book application. When you open Address Book and choose your contact card (Card -> Go to My Card), in adding to your contact information you’ll see in any degree image you’ve assigned to your contact.
Note that your picture is not being sent across the great expanse that is the Internet as some attachment. Others who receive your mail won’t understand this image. Rather, you’re seeing it because it’s part of your Address Book card and Mail is displaying it because Mail displays pictures assigned to contacts in your copy of Address Book. Those you send messages to don’t possess that effigy in their copy of Address Book (unless you’ve given them the image and they’ve assigned it to your card) and so it doesn’t display in their copy of Mail.
If you no longer wish to see the image when you look at your own messages, just open Address Book, fix upon your card, and choose Card -> Clear Custom Image.
Note: The previous version of this answer was completely off the mark owed to a caffeine deficiency. Apologies completely around.
