On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Eugene Lee wrote: > But Mail.app is working on behalf of the user, who may (or may not) know > absolutely when the connection is in use and for what purpose. I wonder > if it's possible to write an AppleScript that launches Internet Connect > to get a dialup connection, then launches Mail.app to download mail, and > finally disconnect the dialup connection. Oh, absolutely - in fact I should have suggested that in my email. By doing so you are in effect authorizing the system to override any other activity, if any. I freely admit to not knowing the correct script commands offhand, but then I don't need this functionality. ;) I was just responding to the OP's question of why Mail shouldn't disconnect by itself. When your OS becomes multi-tasking and multi-user aware, programs need to not make assumptions that resources are exclusively theirs; it needs to be handled by the OS, which (theoretically) knows everything that's going on. KeS