Doh! I wrote the previous email before having seen an error message that is surely very important. Sorry about that. Here it is from /var/log/mail.info and from the return receipts:
Jun 10 06:33:55 saxa sendmail[8685]: KAE23583: SYSERR(daemon): Cannot exec /usr/sbin/sensible-mda: No such file or directory Jun 10 06:33:55 saxa sendmail[8672]: KAE23583: to=root, delay=19:59:58, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=$local, stat=Operating system error Some ppl in this list asked if I could telnet port 25. Ps had indicated that sendmail was accepting messages here. I tested it and sent an email through there. It gave no errors. Thanks for the help up to now. I imagine those error messages might shine some more light on the subject. -S-