Looks like this error message is irrelevant. The true reason is that I'm sitting behind the firewall and outgoing port 443 is blocked. Opening it has solved the problem. So the real problem is that kopete doesn't use proxy in this case for some reason. Best regards, -- Dmitry O Panov | mailto:dmitry@tsu.tula.ru Tula State University | Fidonet: Dmitry Panov, 2:5022/5.13 Dept. of CS & NIT | http://www.tsu.tula.ru/