Avatar loader plugin

Intro

Astroid loads by default avatars from gravatar by embedding the URL into the mailthread view. This has some obvious drawbacks:

• avatars are not cached and retrieved too frequently

• gravatar may learn your contacts

• internal or system mail adresses are grabbed too

this plugin adds the following features:

• instead of gravatar the avatars will be retreived from libravatar if the library python3-libravatar is installed

• the images are persisted to not be retrieved again

• the url is a base64 url containing all image data (out of security reasons)

• avatars for system/internal mailaddresses are supported (for example for mailaddresses starting with root@)

TODOs

• there is no expiry of the cache

• the image type (mime type) is ignored (assumed jpeg)

Installation

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.

Licensing

See LICENSE for licensing information.