Astroid loads by default avatars from gravatar by embedding the URL into the mailthread view. This has some obvious drawbacks:
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avatars are not cached and retrieved too frequently
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gravatar may learn your contacts
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internal or system mail adresses are grabbed too
this plugin adds the following features:
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instead of gravatar the avatars will be retreived from libravatar if the library python3-libravatar is installed
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the images are persisted to not be retrieved again
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the url is a base64 url containing all image data (out of security reasons)
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avatars for system/internal mailaddresses are supported (for example for mailaddresses starting with root@)
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there is no expiry of the cache
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the image type (mime type) is ignored (assumed jpeg)
the installation is simple as:
mkdir -p ~/.config/astroid/plugins/
cd ~/.config/astroid/plugins/
git clone https://github.com/astroidmail/astroid-plugin-avatar...and restart astroid.
See LICENSE for licensing information.