Xref: utzoo comp.mail.mh:375 comp.mail.sendmail:433
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!bingvaxu!sunybcs!rutgers!bellcore!jcricket!tr
From: tr@jcricket.ctt.bellcore.com (tom reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: problem with post
Message-ID: <13655@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 25 Jan 89 21:47:23 GMT
References: <13577@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Sender: news@bellcore.bellcore.com
Reply-To: tr@jcricket.UUCP (tom reingold)
Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, Noo Joizy
Lines: 22

In the newsgroup comp.mail.mh, I wrote:

$ When I try to send mail, I get
$ 
$ post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available
$ Letter saved in dead.letter
$ 
$ Have I set up mh wrong?  It happens consistently on certain Sun clients
$ but not others and not on the Sun server.

It turns out that in my case, it was because I was sending from a Sun
client.  Sun OS version 4.x no longer requires sendmail to run as a
daemon.  You can spawn a copy to deliver a single letter.  What I will
do is configure mh to have send connect to the SMTP port of our machine
that delivers mail rather than the same port on the local host.

Thanks to those who gave me the leads on the answers.

Tom Reingold                   |INTERNET:       tr@bellcore.bellcore.com
Bell Communications Research   |UUCP:           bellcore!tr
444 Hoes La room 1H217         |PHONE:          (201) 829-4622 [work],
Piscataway, NJ 08854           |                (201) 287-2345 [home]