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In article <01bcf695$ccd06260$36c022c3@cathy.thefree.net>, "Cathy Gulbrandsen" <tech.support@thefree.net> writes:
|>Is there anything one can do to make PPP automatically disconnect when
|>quitting Internet application or when finished to download mail from the
|>mail server?
|>
|>At the moment I have got this problem both with OT/PPP and free PPP
|>
|>Even the version of Claris that is suppose to include this feature.
|>
|>Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

FreePPP (and I think, OT/PPP) has a "timeout if idle after xx minutes" setting.

PPP software simply responds to requests to move packets.  It doesn't know
whether a running program is a comm program or not, so it's not going to care
whether a program quits or not.  There's no way for it to tell that you're done 
unless you say so.  Suppose you're running more than one comm program.  You 
quit one, but still need PPP for the other.  All the program knows is what
requests for packets it gets; and may be set to timeout if it gets no requests
for a while.

You could, however, write an AppleScript that quits all comm programs, then
quits the PPP connection.

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In article <01bcf695$ccd06260$36c022c3@cathy.thefree.net>, "Cathy
Gulbrandsen" <tech.support@thefree.net> wrote:

-Is there anything one can do to make PPP automatically disconnect when
-quitting Internet application or when finished to download mail from the
-mail server?
-
-At the moment I have got this problem both with OT/PPP and free PPP
-
-Even the version of Claris that is suppose to include this feature.
-
-Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
-
-Cathy G

   Set the Disconnect after Idle time to a very low number like 5 minutes.

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In article <654v1o$eaa$2@swlab1.msd.ray.com>, rfl@swl.msd.ray.com wrote:

> In article <01bcf695$ccd06260$36c022c3@cathy.thefree.net>, "Cathy
Gulbrandsen" <tech.support@thefree.net> writes:
> |>Is there anything one can do to make PPP automatically disconnect when
> |>quitting Internet application or when finished to download mail from the
> |>mail server?
> |>
> |>At the moment I have got this problem both with OT/PPP and free PPP
> |>
> |>Even the version of Claris that is suppose to include this feature.
> |>
> |>Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
> 
> FreePPP (and I think, OT/PPP) has a "timeout if idle after xx minutes"
setting.
> 
> PPP software simply responds to requests to move packets.  It doesn't know
> whether a running program is a comm program or not, so it's not going to care
> whether a program quits or not.  There's no way for it to tell that
you're done 

Dunno if this helps, but Eudora Lite has a Settings option to close PPP
when you quit Eudora.  Note that it will only close PPP if it was the app
that opened it (a good safety feature).

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