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. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]