Neil Bothwick wrote: > For example, Network Manager uses D-Bus to tell programs when > your Internet connection is available and not, so your mail > client goes into offline mode rather than pointlessly > trying to access your mailbox.
Why should an MUA care about some local interface at all ? It doesnt say anything whether the server can be reached, it's nothing more than guessing, that *might* be fine for trivial setups but can cause big headache in more complex ones. For example: * LAN is up, but remote server is or LAN's uplink down, MUA wont learn about it this way * local mailserver is falsely considered unreachable just because the LAN interface went down There's no way around it: the MUA (or a local proxy) must always check on itself whether a _particular_ remote server is reachable and properly handling that. And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, why not just using the filesystem ? cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
