[X4U] Mail.app and mac.com in cahoots?

[Miche Doherty]

On Jan 14, 2006, at 1:53 pm, DZ-Jay wrote:

> 	Anyway, whenever I open a message in Mail.app that comes from someone 
> with a .Mac address (@mac.com), Little Snitch shows that Mail.app 
> wants to connect to homepage.mac.com on port 80.
>
> 	Does anybody know what this is all about?  I have the "buddy" status 
> thing, and images on html, disabled.  I also cannot find any special 
> Header (e.g. for return-receipts), nor a Web-Bug encoded in a MIME 
> body part (they're all text/plain or text/enriched), that would 
> trigger a call back home.

It's going to the sender's .Mac account to fetch their picture for 
display with the message. If anybody knows a way to turn this "cute" 
feature off, I'd like to know.

Miche.