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

[DZ-Jay]

On Jan 14, 2006, at 09:13, Miche Doherty wrote:

> 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.

Thanks.  I guess blocking it in Little Snitch will have to do for now.

	dZ.