Using version 9 (Win 11), I can turn off sender avatars in a list of messages by changing the column configuration and removing the avatar column.
When I open the message in its window, the avatar is displayed. Is there a way to turn that off as well?
Also, when a notification appears in the lower right, it too contains an avatar. Can I turn that off?
I think I must be missing something. Any advice appreciated!
You can disable downloading avatars from the Internet, so it wonât display them. Instead you will see a monogram, or a silhouette if you disable the monogram. But there will always be an icon of some type in that position.
Thanks. That does it.
Hi Gary, is there still no way to remove this icon completely? I found such feature request dates back to as early as 2015 (Remove photo/avatar silhouette in Contacts), further digging also reveals many similar posts that are asking for the same thing. So clearly this is a long-overdue feature. I, and I guess together with many other users, would really like to see a clean message thread in the message window, that is, no avatars, no monograms, no icons, just names of the sender and receiver.
is there still no way to remove this icon completely
If you donât want to even see any avatars as @Victor.David advised in his original post at the top, then you can âdisable the column from viewâ as in the below extract paragraph from the eM Support page.
(Quote extract below from the above link).
âRight-click the top of the message list and open Columns configuration. Select the Avatar from the âShow these columnsâ list on the right and then click the Remove button, which will move it to the list on the leftâ.
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Also you can uncheck the other box in Settings / Contacts / General âShow Monograms when no other Avatar is foundâ as in @Gary screenshot above in his post, so then wonât show any Avatars.
Thanks for the swift reply! Probably I didnât make myself clear. I understand that in the message list I can disable the avatar from the sender, and have successfully done so. What I want is for the avatar in the detailed message window to disappear. I.e., single click one message from the message list, and see the entire, detailed message in its separate window, as @Victor.David mentioned:
When I open the message in its window, the avatar is displayed. Is there a way to turn that off as well?
And as @Gary mentioned:
But there will always be an icon of some type in that position.
This seems still not possible.
I unchecked both boxes in the setting, but thereâs still a monogram showing, in the screenshot above.
What I want is for the avatar in the detailed message window to disappear
As far as iâm aware, you can only completely remove the senders Avatar from the âSubjectâ column in eM Client, but ânot from the Main Body of the emailâ as (that is controlled by the Sender who creates the email) like in eg: the below Amazon email in Gmail online, where the senders Avatar âdoesnât show in the Subject columnâ, but âdoes show in the Main Body of the emailâ.
Also See Microsofts example sent email in Outlook.com where there is no Avatar in the Subject, but there is a Mongram with a W in it âin the Body of the emailâ. So the senders email controls whether you see that Avatar in the body of the email.
Gotcha, thanks. Still I do hope some clever minds at eM client can get it sorted out in the future 
How do I remove this nonsense?
YES - I deactivated the avatar option entirely.
Yet somehow ânoneâ translates to showing a random icon instead.
What part of NOT AT ALL do you developer guys donât understand???
I hereby add my vote for an option to remove this icon.
I guess the design intent was to help users ID originator but it actually obstructs me from IDing originator because its space usage truncates and obscures the true originator indication to its right - the email name/address
