Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!ENG.UMD.EDU!ziegast From: ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: server search list Message-ID: <9011211617.AA00905@bacchus.eng.umd.edu> Date: 21 Nov 90 16:17:35 GMT References: <27495C64.11685@ics.uci.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 John Romine writes: >ADRIAN BARKER writes: >>In the 'Admin' document for mh, it states that for SMTP delivery you can >>specify a search list, so if the main mailserver is down, others can be >>tried. > >If you config MH with one of the "/smtp" mts options, you can set >"servers:" in the mtstailor file to the list of SMTP server hosts. >"man mh-tailor" gives more information about this. It would be nice if the READ-ME file pointed the installer to the mh-tailor man page for more info on SMTP (like "servers:" and "hosts:" options in lib/mtstailor). I had no idea the first time I installed SMTP why I got [BHST] No servers available. Eric Z.