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Paging the LazyWeb! My desired plugin for Thunderbird:

People use Avatars on message boards and in instant messaging. There have been standards for years to include them in email. I’d love to see a Thunderbird plugin which displays them.

Preferably all of the following “standards” should be supported.

• Ye olde classic X-Face header. It’s XBM-tastic!
• The new, poorly-named PNG+MIME Face Header
• The X-Image-Url(Daniel J. Luke’s Weblog: Picture in Mail (X-Image-Url)) header which is used by Apple Mail
• The sending email address’s Gravatar

Surely someone with knowledge of XUL can knock this out fairly quickly. All the image-displaying stuff is baked right in. You just need to code the part that understands the headers.