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From: ted%braggvax.arpa@ICS.UCI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: MH 6.5 server problems
Message-ID: <8803211438.AA15734@braggvax.arpa>
Date: 21 Mar 88 14:38:29 GMT
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The message

        post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available
        send: message not delivered to anyone

means that MH cannot contact a sendmail daemon to hand off its mail to.
The file /usr/local/lib/mh/mtstailor should have a line in it called
'servers'  which says where (on what machines) for MH to look for smtp
servers.  You should check the machine(s) listed there to make sure that their
sendmails are happy.  It's possible that they are getting swamped and refusing
connections.  Do you route all outgoing mail through the same sendmail?  If
so, it would explain why all the mail on your net stops at once.  A good
test for sendmails and network problems is to do a

	telnet 	hostname 25

to see if the the smtp server responds.


				Ted Nolan
				ted@braggvax.arpa