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

[Brian Durant]

On 3/11/07, Jeff Allison <jeff.allison at allygray.2y.net> wrote:
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> On 11/03/2007, at 1:26 , Brian Durant wrote:
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> > 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
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> Is the http://619219.sigclick.mailinfo.com always the same if so you
> could set 619219.sigclick.mailinfo.com to 127.0.0.1 in you hosts file?
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> Jeff
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Unfortunately, no. The only common denominator is the
"sigclick.mailinfo.com" bit.

Cheers,

Brian