On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 06:28:30PM -0500, Richard Hoskins wrote: > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1) It has to be said that OE is "dialup-friendly". It only takes one > > click to dial up, send outgoing mail, receive incoming mail, and > > hang up again, all automatically, thus reducing time spent online, > > and the associated costs, to the absolute minimum. Last time I > > looked, there was no equivalent in kmail. Of course it would be > > possible to knock up a script to do it, but there seems to be > > nothing built-in. It does seem to be the case that Linux tends to > > assume you have an unmetered, always-on connection, whereas Windoze > > generally assumes you have a dialup. > > diald. People still use that, right? > > http://diald.sourceforge.net/
It's in Debian, too... but I wouldn't consider it the answer. It's OK for starting the connection, but connections that close on idle are an absolute pain... if you rely on that to disconnect, they always stay open longer than needed; the other thing they do is time out while you're reading a web page, so next time you click on a link you have to wait ages while the thing dials up again. I can cope :-), by connecting/disconnecting manually. But for the Windoze convertee, the requirement is for a clone of OE's "Send/Receive" button. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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