Smileys and How do I stop apple mail showing my full name in outgoing mail?

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Smileys and How do I stop apple mail showing my full name in outgoing mail?

After discovering my apple mail downloaded photos much faster than Thunderbird and displayed my friends smileys(who is on AOL) I am thinking of deleting Thunderbird and just using apple mail, however I have two issues.

On Thunderbird I could choose for it to display my name as 'Katilea' which is my internet ID on most forums etc, however on apple mail it displays my full name which i gave as registered owner.

How do i change it so email only shows me as 'Katilea' in To and From without it affecting my registration details/user account for iMac etc?

Also how do I insert smileys myself, as it only seems to give option of fonts or colours but my friends smileys displayed correctly when she emailed me.

When I used the smileys in Thunderbird i could only see them in Thunderbird, when i opened same message in apple mail or from my ISP's web site I only saw the emoticon text?

Do I need some kind of add-on or do i just type in the emoticon text (ie colon right parentheses) and it will display them at the other end?

Intel iMac 3.06Ghz, 4GB 800 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM, Mac OS X (10.5.4), also have an old clamshell iBook!

Posted on Sep 4, 2008 6:41 AM

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Answer 1

roam

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Sep 4, 2008 7:01 AM in response to Katilea

Hello,

How do i change it so email only shows me as 'Katilea' in To and From without it affecting my registration details/user account for iMac etc?

In your Mail Preferences > Accounts, where it says Full Name, change it to Katilea. It will still work without your surname, as that field is not crucial to Mail's operation. You could even put in another name if you wanted to.

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Answer 2

Sep 4, 2008 7:04 AM in response to Katilea

Hello Katilea:

In answer to #1, I do not know. I use AOL Mail and have it integrated into Apple's mail application (automatically goes to the AOL Mail server). FWIW, my full name is displayed as well. You might take a look at (open mail) preferences>composing>send new mail from to see if you van make it do what you wish there.

The emoticons can be generated by just typing the symbol 🙂

Barry

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Katilea Author

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Sep 4, 2008 11:33 AM in response to Barry Hemphill

with regard to the smileys I tried sending myself the following line sone emoticon text and one smiley pasted from friends email:

🙂 🙂 08.gif 😀 :-D

where it says 08.gif should show a yellow smiley but it hasnt pasted it in here, it did in the email, but the others were still just emoticon text and it showed 2 attachments which I'm assuming were the AOL smileys that i copied.

I tried text with and without noses but dont seem to be seeing smileys in my apple mail except for the ones my friend sent from AOL.

I tried to copy your sentence with smiley into this question to ask what symbol you meant. however when i pasted it it showed me the colon space right ) , i tried pasting that into apple mail and posting it to myself and i could still only see the text and not the smiley that appeared in your reply. Is it something I'm doing wrong? why do more of the smileys show up in preview than compose?

Lastly what does FWIW mean?

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Answer 4

Sep 4, 2008 1:01 PM in response to Katilea

Hi katilea:

FWIW is an acronym (probably a "colonial" one). It is shorthand +"for what it's worth."+

I used the +"colon )"+ to generate the 🙂

How and why they display is outside of my knowledge sphere.

I use AOL mail, by the by. I have it integrated into Apple's Mail application (Mail goes right to the AOL mail server).

Barry

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Answer 5

orangekay

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Sep 4, 2008 1:13 PM in response to Katilea

Mail is not going to convert text to images. If you're seeing pictures of smiley faces it's probably because they've been inserted into the message as HTML image tags by the sender's client.

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Answer 6

Katilea Author

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Sep 5, 2008 2:40 AM in response to orangekay

oh rite.. I dont have an account with AOL anymore except the free AIM one so i can talk to my friend on messenger. So when i go into AOL mail now and click on compose I have no format bar to choose font styles/size or insert smileys.

I used to use smiley central on PC, but its not compatible with mac, I think my only solution maybe to install windows on my intel mac and run it with parallel desktops maybe that would allow me to insert the smileys into mail.

Surely there's an add-on for apple mail or mac program that allows you to insert them into message as HTML tags?

oh well, just have to search the web see what i can find! Thanks for your help guys 🙂

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Answer 7

Katilea Author

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Sep 18, 2008 6:50 AM in response to Katilea

Got it sorted thanks. I managed to get the thunderbird add on working and most people seem to be able to see the smileys in their mail.

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