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guettli
guettli

Reputation: 27826

RFC for retrieving avatar image from email address

AFAIK there is no RFC or other standard to retrieve an avatar (image/icon) from an email address.

I think this would be a great feature.

One possible solution:

Get avatar via DNS

  1. user enters his email address.
  2. The domain belonging to this email adress DNS gets asked: Avatar for "[email protected]"
  3. DNS replies: Get image from URL. For example: http://example.com/foo.png

Questions

I know that Gravatar exists. But AFAIK it is not a standard.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 834

Answers (2)

sebbu
sebbu

Reputation: 125

It's not for a (single) email address but for a whole domain.

So if you have your own domain for your email adress (or if you're a company), there is BIMI which is already supported by google/gmail, yahoo, verizon and fastmail.

Upvotes: 0

Rajesh
Rajesh

Reputation: 199

Currently there is no RFC for this. To verify you can search the existing RFC's at: https://www.rfc-editor.org/retrieve/

Also, the process to create an RFC is non-trivial. However, if you are ok with an RFC in the experimental or informational category, you could consider the Independent Submission process which is detailed at: https://www.rfc-editor.org/about/independent/

Upvotes: 2

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