thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Add interface for third-party apps to provide images for email addresses
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Description
Right now we only display images in the message list when the sender's email address belongs to a system contact. Sometimes it would be nice to see pictures for the sender without having to add them to you contacts.
Examples:
- GitHub's notification emails contain enough information to be able to fetch the avatar of the person who triggered the notification
- Gravatar (allows finding an avatar using an email address)
- Favicon (see #6128)
There's a lot of sources one could use. I don't want to include support for any specific provider in the app directly. Instead we should add an interface that allows third-party apps to provide an image given an email address and/or a specific email header field.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files or tests; start by reviewing the existing message-list handling for system-contact images. Define the extension boundary for third-party apps and how an email address or specific email header is supplied. Done means third-party providers can supply sender images without adding a provider directly to the app.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- kotlin
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100