On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Phillip Morgan wrote: > Apr 14 08:48:18 clam nntpcache-update[533]: sockets.c:174: server > localhost:119 dropped during initial connect phase This looks like you might have misconfigured something in nntpcache.servers -- it thinks localhost is a NNTP server and is trying to connect to get active / newsgroups. -=Eric