Hi,
I've got a friend who has free dialup service. The problem is the lines are almost always busy. She would like to schedule her computer to dialup, retrieve her e-mail, and possibly some webpages in the middle of the night when the lines are likely free.

I've found this link: http://www.dit.gov.bt/~takeshi/material/win2000srv/internet-gw/dialup-schedule/ which should handle the dialing and disconnecting. I can use wget or LWP to fetch webpages. The big question is how do I check if Outlook is running, if it isn't running start it and then tell it to fetch her mail? Win32::OLE seems to be the ticket but I can't seem to find any examples related to this or documentation that would seem to help.

Any help on this particular problem would be very much appreciated. If anyone has thoughts on handling this entire process I'd be interested to hear those too.

Thanks In Advance,

--banky

In reply to Automating Dialup and fetching of e-mail/webpages with Windows 2000/Outlook by Banky

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