[X-Newbies] How to block MailInfo and the like from phoning home from Mail.

[Brian Durant]

On 3/10/07, W Lane <wilann at telusplanet.net> wrote:
>
> On 07-Mar-10, at 07:26: 58, Brian Durant wrote:
>
> > Anyone know how to block MailInfo
> > http://619219.sigclick.mailinfo.com/web/signature.htm and similar
> > programs from phoning home, when I am using Mail.app to receive mail?
> > I don't want to mark the e-mails as spam because it is job related,
> > but I would like to prevent this and similar programs from sending a
> > receipt back to the sender.
>
>
> Uninstall MailInfo. From a quick look at the company site I don't see
> any great benefit to using it. Most of the 'recent info' (quotes from
> computer magazines and the like) is from 2004, the demo includes the
> facts that 'where the email was read is based on info from a third
> party which may be inaccurate' and 'an indication of the email having
> been read, or not, may not be accurate'.  I'm paraprhasing but that's
> the gist of what I get from it.
>
>
> --
> William Lane
> Calgary, Canada
> via Mac OSX - Mail

I guess I wasn't clear enough. I don't have MailInfo installed, but I
receive e-mails from Windows users that have it installed. I don't
want to mark their mail as spam, but I would like to make sure that I
block sending receipts back to the sender.

Cheers,

Brian