>How to know if the LAN internet conexion is working?
>I am developing a little software that needs to check if an Internet Conection is avaible and running.
>It would be also nice to know if the Mail server is ON too.
>
>Any ideas?
>Regards,
>Pablo Velazco


Have you considered implementing PING?

You can ping a known server and also PING the mail server.

Another way is to log in to the mail server to see if it is up and running.

You can check out www.SeekfordSolutions.com for ActiveX technology which would allow you to accomplish this.