I am seeing something strange that I am trying to figure out the source. For my own email address, there is an avatar that em Client is always showing that I have no idea where it is coming from. I do recognize the avatar, but it is not added to Gravatar.com. The avatar always appears for all instances of my own email address whether incoming or sent emails. This only shows in my local em client, and recipients never see it (thankfully). I never asked for this, and I see no way to turn it off. It is not listed at all under accounts. If I start typing my email in a TO box, it appears in the drop-down selection list though. Where is this coming from? How do I get rid of it?
I checked for client updates minutes ago to find a new update available. I installed that update, and now that mystery avatar is no longer showing in em client. The update is version: 10.4.5326 (97a2e75). This is resolved.
Good you the upgrade fixes it.
Apart from Gravatar.com, Avatars can come from personal email addresses like Gmail, and also can come sometimes come from company or other business domains with (fav icons) if you had your email address connected to one in the past. Also can come from Local Contacts in eM Client.
“Avatar downloading”
If it was a domain like gmail, this would make sense. My email domain is a domain name that I own. That mystery avatar was not associated with any Internet published site that is publicly available. This was why I was confused to see it. My own email address also does not appear in contacts. Gravatar is the only published site that has an avatar associated with my email address, but this was not what was showing.
The mystery avatar was associated with whatsapp years ago, but it is not today.