[X Newbies] OSX not dial-up friendly

[Deb Hagen]

On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 08:00  PM, Florin Alexander Neumann 
wrote:

> On Tuesday, Sep 23, 2003, at 20:00 Canada/Eastern, Paul Korntheuer 
> wrote:
>
>
>>  and after downloading emails, manually disconnect.
>
> System Preferences > Network > Internal Modem (or whatever modem 
> you're using) > PPP > PPP Options > Disconnect if idle for n minutes.

Why can't there just be a checkbox to "disconnect after getting the 
mail" like I used to do in Outlook Express?  I don't want to 
"disconnect if idle" because that's what my ISP does to me if I take 
too long reading a particular Web page before clicking again.  I use 
the same method as Paul: start up OS X Mail & internet connection, then 
go make coffee.  It seems that OE wins in this category, IMHO!

Deb Hagen