IChat icon in Mail signature

I received a email from a colleague that apparently has an AOL account and there was an icon of the AOL Running Man beside my colleague's name. When you place your cursor over the icon and click, it automatically initiated a chat with them. Is it possible to do this with iChat (place an icon of the blue chat bubble) in my email signature so that when the recipient of any mail clicks on the icon, it starts a chat?
I have seen a similar setup with Skype but nothing with iChat.
Thanks

Hi Heady1701,
Welcome to the  Discussions
I would start with going to iChat Preferences > General section and turning the Menu Bar Icon Off.
Does this make the icon disappear from the Menu bar ?
If it does not delete com.apple.ichat.plist
This requires you go manually to your Little House iCon/Lirary/Preferences as Spotlight does not look in here.
Restart iChat if you have to delete the .plist
If it does remove itself from the Menu Bar then try resetting it and using it again.
It may help if we also had more info.
Is it Greyed Out when you are Logged Off the Buddy lists ?
(IT should show just Saved Status Messages)
If you are logged into AIM or Jabber (GoogleTalk) it should show the Buddy list that would be front (it is the top one in iChat > Preferences > Accounts which can be dragged in iChat 4 into any order)
(i.e. There are two menus it could show you depending if you are logged in already)
8:09 PM Tuesday; July 14, 2009

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