Off topic to this thread, but:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:24 AM, GVG GVG  wrote:

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> Sendmail gets started as:

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> sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -C/etc/mail/sendmail.cf -bd -qp -B8BITMIME -X

> /[$HOME]/mail_log"

Remove -B8BITMIME from that: the -B option is only applicable when

sending email.  Indeed, you should be seeing this error at boot time:

    WARNING: Ignoring submission mode -B option (not in submission mode)
What docs suggested that you add that?
(For the topic of this thread, you did eyeball /var/log/maillog after

restarting, right?)
Philip Guenther