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From: Howard Lew <hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU>
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I have a weird problem with sendmail on 2.1.7R, but I did not notice this 
on 2.1.5 so does anyone have any ideas?

The problem:

When the system does a cold/warm restart, 2.1.7R loads up fine but sendmail
bounces mail back to all the senders.  The mailer daemon says:

mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
Local configuration error

But if I manually kill the sendmail process and restart it, all is well
again and mail no longer bounces.  I tried turning off sendmail in 
sysconfig and manually starting it in rc.local, but that did not help.


Thanks in advance for any help or ideas.