0012785: Being able to use Gravatar when using internal email addresses - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0012785	mantisbt	email	public	2011-02-18 05:32	2015-05-31 06:36

Reporter	david_s_nl	Assigned To	vboctor
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	closed	Resolution	won't fix
Product Version	1.2.4

Summary	0012785: Being able to use Gravatar when using internal email addresses
Description	Hi, the main reason we can not use Gravatars in our internal Mantis is because we use internal email addresses (someuser@office.local), and a Gravatar is always linked to an external email address (because the email address used to register on gravatar has to be verified, and this cannot be done with an internal email address). Therefore, Mantis is currently unable to show gravatars when using internal email addresses. There's already an issue reported which provides a solution by storing the avatar locally: 0008257. I was wondering, isn't it possible (and easier to implement) to add an extra field "gravatar email" to the user page, only to be used for showing the gravatar?
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related to	0008257	acknowledged		store avatar local
related to	0019319	closed	vboctor	Add support for own gravatar site

vboctor 2015-05-19 00:16 manager ~0050785	Marking this as won't fix, since we won't be supporting a gravatar specific email address. However, we will consider the option of local storage or the proposed gravatar like local service proposed at: https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/pull/574