MailMate makes HTTP request for external links
Reported by James Cooksey | April 22nd, 2022 @ 11:56 AM
When following an external link, it seems MailMate makes an HTTP request to the link URL a swell as handing it to the default browser.
I'm not sure the reason for this but it causes Little Snitch to pop up with a port 443 request to the link domain every time a link is clicked.
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Ngoc Pham April 22nd, 2022 @ 04:43 PM
This is very interesting as I just filed a bug report to another app on similar behavior, and according to the owner, it's because of the
WKWebView, which is being used now by Mailmate. https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/issues/1330 -
benny April 27th, 2022 @ 12:37 PM
- State changed from “new” to “closed”
This is actually new to me. Does it happen when hovering the link or when clicking it?
In the latter case then I think NSWorkspace is involved (and not WKWebView).
In any case, I've changed the code to use a newer API to open URLs on macOS 10.15+. This might make a difference. I don't think there's anything else I can do.
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Ngoc Pham April 27th, 2022 @ 01:56 PM
Yeah this is when clicking the link And yes it's still happening with latest build 5892. Thanks for looking into this though. This is just weird.
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James Cooksey April 27th, 2022 @ 07:21 PM
I can confirm that it's only when clicking the link and still present in 5892.
Is this something to do with OpenGraph? Is the OS trying to grab a sample image in the background or some meta data about the link?
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James Cooksey April 27th, 2022 @ 07:24 PM
On a side note, thanks to Ngoc for mentioning FSNotes. I've been looking for a new notes app for ages and it looks great. Was going to jump into Obsidian but this looks more open. Thanks!
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James Cooksey June 24th, 2022 @ 10:42 AM
Would still be great to work on this if possible. Still there.
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benny July 15th, 2022 @ 08:37 AM
@James: I'm not sure what else I can do unless the NSWorkspace theory is wrong. Also, I just tried installing Little Snitch and I only seem to get Safari-requests and not MailMate-requests when clicking on links. This is on macOS 12.2 (and MailMate r5907). Seems I haven't updated for a while :)
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Ngoc Pham July 15th, 2022 @ 04:25 PM
Based on the date of this post, and from my memory, this started happening recently for both Mailmate and that app FSNotes, so my theory is it's probably since macOS 12.3 (released on March 14th according to Wikipedia). Unfortunately I do not have another mac with lower version of OS to check (I tend to update as soon as one is out).
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benny July 16th, 2022 @ 08:18 AM
When I have time, I'll update to 12.5 and see if I can reproduce it.
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benny August 4th, 2022 @ 09:09 AM
- State changed from “closed” to “reproduced”
I can reproduce this on 12.5, but I haven't looked into any workarounds yet. (I'm also interested in knowing if the behavior is the same on 13.x.)
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Hans Kuhn November 6th, 2023 @ 04:53 PM
I can confirm that this still happens on MacOS 13.6.1.
It's likely not relevant, but Little Snitch 5.7.1 (6292) and MailMate 1.14 (5964).
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