Hi, I have written a small mail pre-viewer in Ruby/FXRuby which allows a
graphic view of incoming mail headers, from
which I can select canditates for deletion before loading,
I an using POP, however I cannot see any way to detect that the user
has actually connected to their ISP before running
the program, natually I recieve a 'system error.
I wrote a Ruby script that connected to my ISP a while ago. To test if I
was connected I would run ifconfig and then parse the first line
returned and look for ‘ppp’ (the name of the connection). This is a bit
hackish and I’m pretty sure there is a better way to do it.
Farrel
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