>Thanks for all the advice, everyone.
>
>Ed, I picked up the suggestion of trying to connect with a known IP address from the West Wind site, and thought I might use the GetIPFromDomain() function. It gave the correct answer (from cached data?) after I went off line in the middle of an email session. It may work for testing when I start sending, though. I'll check the earlier thread for more info.
>


Here's what I do . . .

set classlib to wwipstuff addi
o = create('wwipstuff')
lcip=''
* check to see if you can access the web server
lcip= o.GetIpFromDomain("www.Yourdomain.com")
if len(lcip)<12
messagebox('Not Connected to the Internet'+crlf+' or the Web Server is experiencing problems. . . Check Connection!')
return
endif

Works like a charm for me.