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From: ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: strange error on DECsomething 3100
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Date: 26 Feb 91 00:37:25 GMT
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trost%REED.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>...as in
>
>  What now? send -verbose -watch
>   -- Posting for All Recipients --
>  post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available
>  send: message not delivered to anyone

My best guess is that you compiled MH with the /SMTP option,
but have not given it any (or correct) servers in your ETCDIR/mtstailor
file.  Look at the mh-tailor(5) man page for more info.

>This only happens on one of our client DECsomethings; another one with
>the same (physically the same, not just identical contents)
>configuration files works fine.

Same mtstailor file?

>Oh, this is MH 6.7.0 (can't apply the patches yet...pbtthhh), and
>Ultrix 4.0+ (I think).

When you submit problems, it might be more helpful for others if
you take the info from the command from "send -help" and include
it in your message.  Depending on the different options used, some
MH commands will behave differently.  Unless you give other MH users
that info, they can only guess as to what might be wrong.

For example, here's the info for from our Sun3 installation:

version: MH 6.7 #3[UCI] (alborz) of Tue Feb 19 05:37:41 EST 1991
options: [ATZ] [BIND] [BSD42] [BSD43] [SUN40] [ISI] [MHE] [MHRC]
         [NTOHLSWAP] [RPATHS] [TZNAME] [ZONEINFO] [FOLDPROT='"0700"']
         [MSGPROT='"0600"'] [SBACKUP='"#"'] [TYPESIG='void'] [SENDMTS]
________________________________________________________________________
Eric W. Ziegast, University of Merryland, Engineering Computing Services
ziegast@eng.umd.edu - Eric@(301.405.3689)