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I've installed a sendmail 8.12.9 compiled from source on my RH 9.0 Server. Installations came very smooth and without problem. However, testing it produces the following errors on my logs:

#mail root ----this is what I did why the logs were written out.

Sep 29 11:53:41 popd sendmail[830]: /etc/mail/aliases: 12 aliases, longest 36 bytes, 207 bytes total
Sep 29 11:53:41 popd sendmail[837]: starting daemon (8.12.9): SMTP+queueing@01:00:00
Sep 29 11:54:20 popd sendmail[842]: h8T3sKYu000842: from=root, size=38, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200309290354.h8T3sKYu000842@popd.alsterph.com>, relay=root@localhost
Sep 29 11:54:22 popd sendmail[843]: h8T3sKxA000843: from=<root@popd.alsterph.com>, size=328, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200309290354.h8T3sKYu000842@popd.alsterph.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Sep 29 11:54:22 popd sendmail[842]: h8T3sKYu000842: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=relay, pri=30029, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (h8T3sKxA000843 Message accepted for delivery)
Sep 29 11:54:22 popd sendmail[845]: h8T3sKxA000843: to=sirhonneil, ctladdr=<root@popd.alsterph.com> (47/0), delay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30553, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Sep 29 11:54:23 popd sendmail[845]: h8T3sMxB000845: to=sirhonneil, ctladdr=root (47/0), delay=00:00:01, mailer=local, pri=2601, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown
Sep 29 11:54:23 popd sendmail[845]: h8T3sMxA000845: Losing ./qfh8T3sMxA000845: savemail panic
Sep 29 11:54:23 popd sendmail[845]: h8T3sMxA000845: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

here's some of my configs:
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhosts.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.3 popd.alsterph.com popd
192.168.0.1 ns1.alsterph.com ns1 proxy
192.168.0.2 ns2.alsterph.com ns2 ftp

--i can successfully resolve and access the internet.

/etc/mail/aliases
mailer-daemon: postmaster
postmaster: root
root: sirhonneil

/etc/mail/virtusertable
postmaster@alsterph.com postmaster
sirhonneil@alsterph.com sirhonneil
sirhonneil@yahoo.com sirhonneil
@yahoo.com sirhonneil
@alsterph.com error:nouser User unknown

/etc/mail/access
127.0.0.1 RELAY
192.168.0. RELAY
alsterph.com RELAY
spammer@hotmail.com REJECT
cyberspammer.com REJECT
203.197.36. REJECT
spamnation.net 500 Get lost!

What could be the problem???
Pls help.

rhonneil