I see the same problem as well, running very recent nightly builds
Ross J. Corbett wrote:
> I'm having some serious problems with the newsreader portion of 0.8 on
> Win98: namely, it opens new connections to my news server almost every
> time I try to view a message, and then doesn't close them. I have both
> enabled and disabled "Keep Alive" in the "Debug" section of
> "Preferences," but this did not solve the problem. This does not happen
> every time I view a message -- I can usually get through a few items
> before it kicks in -- but once it starts it opens a new connection for
> every message. This is especially annoying since my server will only
> allow five open connections.
>
> Each message appears to download completely, nor does there appear to be
> any pattern to which message triggers this. Once it starts, and the
> connections are open, attempting to close Mozilla results in an error:
> MOZILLA caused invalid page fault in MSGMAIL.DLL. My news server does
> not require authentication.
>
> I have tried adjusting my firewall, on the off chance that it would not
> permit Mozilla to close the connection: I now have identical rules for
> Mozilla as I did for Outlook Express and Netscape Communicator, but
> still no luck.
>
> The error appears to be caused by connections remaining open after the
> download is complete. So, is this a known bug (my stupidity), an
> unknown bug (bug), or an incorrect setting on my machine that refuses to
> allow connections to be closed (my stupidity). I ask that the smart
> folk ehlp me decide.
>
> ross
