Re: problem initializing server

Neil W Rickert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exmh.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Pierrick <[email protected]> wrote on Oct 7, 2005:

>> >post: problem initializing server; [BHST] premature end-of-file on pipe
>> >send: message not delivered to anyone

>> That's an mh/nmh error.  It usually indicates that the SMTP server
>> is not running.

>I don't understand because exim4 is running and i can send mail with 
>mutt (that's what I do) .

I'm pretty sure that "mutt" invokes sendmail (or a "sendmail"
lookalike provided with exim) at the command line to send messages.
Depending on how you built nmh, it either makes a connection to port
25, or it starts "sendmail -bs" at the command line.  The latter
might not work with exim.

You could try a test message directly with nmh (or mh if you are using
that).  At the "whatnow" prompt, use

	send -snoop -watch -verbose

Perhaps the output will tell you what is going wrong.

 -NWR
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