Gui for "internet connect"

Question

anyone know if/were i could find a more in depth gui to replace/overlay mac's "internet connection". my complaints: stumblers can tell me a lot whilst the "internet connection" is fairly basic and uninformative. it often shows that i am connected to a wpa network that is not mine nor have i attempted to connect to that access point. i would like to be in control and informed right? -thanks

Answer 1

You need some additional logic in there - as written, the script will launch mail, then immediately disconnect the internet connection.
At the very least you need to add a delay before disconnecting to allow for Mail to download awaiting messages.
Since you cannot predict how long a delay you'll need, a better approach would be to query Mail.app and wait until it's idle, like:
tell application "Mail"
  launch -- doesn't need to be frontmost
  check for new mail -- get all mail
  repeat until (get background activity count) = 0
    delay 2 -- wait 2 seconds before checking again
  end repeat
end tell
In this way the script forces a check of new mail (don't assume that Mail.app is set to auto-check, especially for dialup users who often compose mail offline and may have automatic checking disabled), and it hangs around until Mail.app has finished downloading all the messages.