V10.1.4588 How can I disable the message view's From/Sender icon?

[chrisjj]

V10.1.4588 How can I disable the message view’s circular icon which is at the top of the display, and which is apparently an attempt to indicate the From/Sender? “P” here

To me this is of negative worth because as above its space usage truncates and obscures the true originator indication to its right - the address.

Thanks.

[cyberzork]

Having the senders email Avatar showing by default “is a quick visual way” to see specific senders in a list of emails. Lots of mail clients enable that now if the sender uses one.

However if you don’t want to see the senders email Avatar, then see the following thread for options on how to remove it. V9 & V10 senders Avatar remove options are the same.

How to turn off all sender avatars?

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!

[chrisjj]

@cyberzork

Having the senders email Avatar showing by default “is

Thanks but my question is not about the avatar. It is about the circular icon at message view top left, whether there’s an avatar or not.

@cyberzork

if you don’t want to see the senders email Avatar, then see the following thread for

Thanks but as other users point out there, removing the avatar does not remove the icon.

And thanks again because that led me to
How to turn off all sender avatars? - #2 by Gary suggesting the answer is “You cannot”.

[cyberzork]

Thanks but my question is not about the avatar. It is about the circular icon at message view top left, whether there’s an avatar or not.

Thanks but as other users point out there, removing the avatar does not remove the icon.

As per my post “in that thread further down the page”, if you don’t want to see the Avatar (circular icon as you described it) in the Subject, then you can “disable the column from view” as in the below last paragraph extract from the eM Support page.

https://support.emclient.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/245/6/how-to-disable-or-resize-avatars-in-message-list

(Quote extract below from the above link).

Remove Avatars

"Right-click the top of the message list and open Columns configuration. Select the Avatar from the “Show these columns” list on the right and then click the Remove button, which will move it to the list on the left, “Available columns”.

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Also “as per my post in that thread” near the bottom, (as far as i’m aware), you can only completely remove the senders Avatar from the “Subject” column in eM Client, but “not from the Main Body of the email” as (that is normally controlled by the Sender who creates the email) like in eg: the below Amazon received email in Gmail.com online, where the senders Avatar “doesn’t show in the Subject column”, but “does show in the Main Body of the email”.

Also See Microsofts example received email in Outlook.com where there is no Avatar in the Subject, but there is a Mongram with a W in it “in the Body of the email”.

So the senders email normally controls whether you see that Avatar in the body of the email.

[chrisjj]

[quote=“cyberzork, post:4, topic:107822”]
"Right-click the top of the message list and open Columns configuration.[/quote]

Thanks, but that has no effect on the message view icon that is this subject of this question.

@cyberzork

Also “as per my post in that thread” near the bottom, (as far as i’m aware), you can only completely remove the senders Avatar from the “Subject” column in eM Client, but “not from the Main Body of the email”

Thanks So the answer is “You can’t”.

@cyberzork

as (that is normally controlled by the Sender who creates the email)

No, whether this icon is shows by eM Client is not controlled by the sender. Plus I get it on emails created by client programs that have no option to control it.

Thanks.