[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 10:36: 56, Brian Durant wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> Ah...
>
> So does MailInfo work transparently with all receiving email clients?
> I know that Entourage has a 'receipt' feature, but it doesn't work
> with Mail or other email clients. Are you sure that you are in fact
> sending receipts back to them? If so, how do they show up in your
> email app? Do they show up in the Sent folder/mailbox? In Mail I'd be
> inclined to set up a Rule to block sending based on content.
>
>
> --
> William Lane
> Calgary, Canada
> via Mac OSX - Mail

I'm not totally sure that it does "phone home", but it appears to when
I click on an e-mail. At the bottom appears a .jpg that contains a
unique URL for each e-mail. Here are two examples:

http://619219.sigclick.mailinfo.com/sigclick/07030C05/03094D02/040B4905/41257201.jpg
http://619219.sigclick.mailinfo.com/sigclick/02030804/010C4D07/01074D04/14216051.jpg

Cheers,

Brian