Sometimes Friendica avatars are missing in emails

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Sometimes avatars are not displayed in notification emails that contain events with or from external accounts, such as Friendica.

Avatars of Diaspora users are displayed correctly.
A non-functioning (wrong?) link to the image is given in the source code of the mail.
However, the (Friendica) avatar is displayed correctly on the Diaspora website.

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Example:

Working link on Diaspora website

https://sekretaerbaer.de/photo/custom/100/3.jpg

Link in email

https://sekretaerbaer.de/photo/custom/5=0/3.jpg

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The email notifications use a smaller version of the profile picture. However, diaspora* does not resize the thumbnails itself, the URLs fixed within the user’s profile data, and this data is generated and sent by the originating node.

So this is either a setup-issue on sekretaerbaer.de, or a bug in Friendica.

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Although, having said that,

https://sekretaerbaer.de/photo/custom/50/3.jpg

works, and a = is used in the quoted-printable email format to signify a soft line-break. So maybe your email client has a bug - because that character probably shouldn’t be part of the URL (but that’s hard to say without looking at the raw source of the email)

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Tested with another mail client and it works perfect.

So it’s just a client bug - thanks.

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