"...winston" wrote in message ...

- The mail client will auto-poll (regardless of user configuration settings
disabled - Send immediately/Send every x minutes). I.e. It's 'Live' and by
design intended for use with Live services (i.e. Hotmail type accounts to
ensure mail, contacts, calendar are in sync)...the use or not use of a Live
ID to sign on to Live services is not relevant to the polling and likewise
it does not matter if present mail accounts are pop3/IMAP/HTTP...it
auto-polls regardless approx. every hour (afaics about 71 min)
- The Messenger client (since it requires a Live ID signon) when in use, is
always communicating back and forth to ensure that contacts and social
connected services data is current.


Some time ago I noticed that every time I ran Windows Live Mail it phoned home to he
config.messenger.msn.com
Since I don't use any of the 'Live sign-in' crap or Messenger and I don't want it to
phone anywhere behind my back I edited msmail.dll with a hex editor to mangle the
address to something like this:
confug.messenger.mzn.com
That seems to stop it.