Re: Urgent mail problem
Which mail program do you use, smail? What's your mail server's name on the
internet? Do you get mail directly from the internet?
Mike Patterson wrote:
> If anyone can give speedy advice, it'd be greatly appreciated. Days without
> mail on my linux box are disasterous for many reasons...
>
> Basically, mail doesn't work anymore. If I try sending mail from the debian
> box, I get the folloring error:
>
> What now? send
> post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available
> send: message not delivered to anyone
>
> People sending mail to the system complain that the mail gets bounced back,
> but apparently not immediately, since my email sent there hasn't returned
> yet (nor did the account on the box recieve it).
>
> /var/log/ doesn't give any useful information. The following files are
> empty, as well as their zipped predecessors:
>
> mail.err
> mail.info
> mail.log
> mail.warn
>
> ----
>
> This problem appears to have started when using dselect to update from
> ftp.debian.org. I'm running 1.3 on this system.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
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