sue@calliope.Encore.COM (Sue LoVerso) (01/25/89)
In article <13577@bellcore.bellcore.com> tr@ctt.bellcore.com (tom reingold) writes: >When I try to send mail, I get > >post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available >Letter saved in dead.letter > >Tom Reingold |INTERNET: tr@bellcore.bellcore.com We have seen this several times on our system, a Multimax 320, running Mach, sendmail, and MH 6.6. Here is the information I have been able to get on this problem: 1. I have traced it down to an error coming back from the connect() system call in zotnet/mts/client.c. When I manually try to connect to the smtp socket, it appears to be stuck or hung. A 'ps' does not show anything unusual regarding sendmail. /usr/ucb/Mail works fine. Killing the sendmail daemon and restarting it has ALWAYS fixed this particular problem. 2. It appears to happen 'randomly'. We cannot reproduce it on demand. If anyone knows how to reproduce it, please let me know, as I would like to find out why sendmail is not listening or why connect is failing. 3. We only see it about once every 3 weeks or so. I am cross-posting this to comp.mail.sendmail since I believe it is something weird happening on the sendmail end. Susan J. LoVerso Encore Computer Corp. sue@encore.com Marlboro, MA {decvax, talcott, bu-cs}!encore!sue (508) 460 - 0500
tr@jcricket.ctt.bellcore.com (tom reingold) (01/26/89)
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]