Smart folder->New icons for each email account

[serializer]

How can I revert it back to the old email account list instead of the icon like (S) (B) etc. Thanks

[mikeone]

You will find the settings for the "Contact icons" in the the menu:
> Settings > Message list > scroll down to the following items ...

enable / disable:
• "Show sender contact images"
• "Round contact images"
• "Colour chips"

The last one should be what you are looking for.

[serializer]

Sorry, but this is not what you are looking at. I am talking about new features since yesterday. It is not about sender but by account list.

For some reason I cannot see this anymore but what happened that in top of "Smart folder" I got those chips for my Accounts (not senders). So I have 5 accounts and I got one chip for each account. Very irritating view.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Re: old email account list instead of the icon like (S) (B) etc. Thanks

I assume you're asking about the difference in the screenshots?

One (the list of accounts and folders) is a whole "screen" in the app.

The other (just the icons, color letters, with unread counts if there are unread messages) is in the side panel if you swipe it in while on the message list screen.

Two completely different things. Not aware of any changes there lately. Could you try to rephrase the question?

[mr108]

How do I get these account icons different for each account? Mine are all the same for 3 accounts like on the attached image.

[mikeone]

How do I get these account icons different for each account? Mine are all the same for 3 accounts like on the attached image.

As for the chips, - you can give a name to (rename) each account. If those names are starting from different letters, - the chips are different.
Long press on the account in the account list view.  -> "Rename the account" ->
"Account name: ..." - change to what you want it to be called. By default, this is your account address. If you change it, it will not affect your address, this is only how the account shows up on this list view (and affects the chips).

BTW: Thanks to @StR for the detailed description above. 
http://www.aqua-mail.com/forum/index.php?topic=5017.msg29111#msg29111

[mr108]

Thanks mikeone,

I saw SR's post before but it doesn't work - the icons remain the same. Any other ideas?
I'm using latest Am on marshmallow.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Those are Hotmail "placeholder" images.

Unfortunately Hotmail does not tell the app that "there is an image, but it's a placeholder", and so AquaMail shows those, not knowing that they're really "images that mean an absence of an image".

The only way to change those is in Hotmail:

1. Log in your account at https://profile.live.com.
2. On the left hand side, click Change picture.
3. Click Browse... then choose the picture from your computer.
4. Wait for it to load then click Save.

After you've made the change there, please long press an account in AquaMail (on the app's main screen) -> account setup -> Next.

This will clear the app's "cache" and it will fetch the updated image on next mail check.

Without the "account setup" step, AquaMail does this every 24 hours while checking mail.

[mr108]

Thanks Kostya,

I've never been using Hotmail, all my accounts are Gmail.
What to do in this case?

[mr108]

Thanks Kostya,

I've never been using Hotmail, all my accounts are Gmail.
What to do in this case?

In Hotmail (Outlook) webmail interface, add a picture to your account.
Remove your Hotmail account in AquaMail, then add it again.

Thanks Paris Geek,

Does this procedure apply to Gmail as well?

If yes, is there any other way to do it? I'd like to not to lose all the settings of 3 accounts.

[mr108]

Thanks Paris Geek,

It worked out OK. Now I can see the different chips for different accounts.

But I was also hoping that the account chips will be visible as avatars/Contact images in the Message list and in the Message view. I've sent a test message from one of my accounts to the others and the avatars are still visible as colour chips and not the images that I set previously as the account images.

Did I miss something under the settings somewhere?

[mr108]

So the avatars of the senders in the Message list will be visible first when they will do what I have done - when they upload their images to their email accounts?

[StR]

So the avatars of the senders in the Message list will be visible first when they will do what I have done - when they upload their images to their email accounts?

As far as I understand: No.
Aquamail only shows whichever avatars are saved in your system "Contacts" (or "People").
So, whichever images you save for your correspondents there will be shown.

[mr108]

So the avatars of the senders in the Message list will be visible first when they will do what I have done - when they upload their images to their email accounts?

As far as I understand: No.
Aquamail only shows whichever avatars are saved in your system "Contacts" (or "People").
So, whichever images you save for your correspondents there will be shown.

Yes Str, that's correct what you are saying.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Re: Aquamail only shows whichever avatars are saved in your system "Contacts" (or "People").

Correct. The only thing it can do.

There isn't an "open" (available to anyone) capability to collect an arbitrary email's avatar, even just from Google, guess they consider this a privacy problem.

I think there is a mail app or two or three that can show other people's images, but I don't know if:

- they were able to work something out with Google (maybe someone plays golf or goes clubbing with someone)

- or if they do the collection themselves (which would mean they "report" your image to their servers, for their app to use on other people's devices... privacy again).