From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 14:17:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA14454 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:17:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper3.mcimail.com (gatekeeper3.mcimail.com [192.147.45.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA14421 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:17:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgate6.mcimail.com (166.40.135.40) by gatekeeper.mcimail.com (PMDF V5.0-8 #16708) id <0E7MDWE6600265@gatekeeper.mcimail.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mailgate6.mcimail.com id bc00106; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:19 +0000 (WET) Received: from mcimail.com by mailgate6.mcimail.com id ar05050; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 04:48 +0000 (WET) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:08 -0500 (EST) From: MDM Subject: email does not work To: FreeBSD-Questions Message-id: <97032423080998/0006695923PK1EM@MCIMAIL.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-MB-Info: v2.T8 | 000-00-0000 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am using 2.1.5-release, and I have configured ppp so that I can read the news (gnus) using a nntp connection and normal network operations (telnet, ftp, etc) do work. I have been assigned a static IP address by my ISP. I start "sendmail -bd" from the etc/sysconfig file and then issue the command "sendmail -q" after making the ppp connection and again after sending a message. My machine (486dx2) does have the hostname set, but the name is not registered with InterNIC. My problem is mail (post, sendmail, whatever) does not work. I use emacs and mh to handle mail. When I send a message, I get the following error messages: post: problem initializing servers [BHST] no servers available send: message not delivered to anyone I receive these same error messages regardless of whether I send to a exterior address or another account on my machine (486dx2). thanks for any hints or clues. V--- email at work (which does work) ---V ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Mark McDonald ~ Email: mdm+asacodef%669-5923@mcimail.com ~ ~ Senior Design Engineer ~ Phone: 207.283.3611x157 ~ ~ Saco Defense, Inc. ~ Fax: 207.286.3129 ~ ~ 291 North St. ~ ~ ~ Saco, ME 04072 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~