manishie@gmail.com writes:
> [...]
> Andrzej,
>
> thanks for your ! i figured it out. for some reason, there was a
> symbolic link in my system so that when sendmail was called, it was
> actually running postfix. not sure why, because i did run the
> redhat-switch-mail program to change the system to sendmail. so
> postfix was running instead, with all the sendmail switches!
>
> thanks again...

You have not been first to be hit by "problems" caused by starting
"sendmail look alike" by sendmail-8.12+ startup scripts.

Once (a few years ago) I installed a fresh system expecting sendmail as
usual I getting something else (exim). I detected it when I tried to
use sendmail's advanced debugging command line switches :-)

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