What is your config line from /etc/netstart
	most importantly - did you leave a space after the " and before
	the # on the line (ie the following would be wrong)

sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m"# for 'normal' use: ...="-bd -q30m"  #@ Was NO


                   David/abs             (david@mono.org)

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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Dirk Allard wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I ran into a problem with sendmail. When starting in the startup
> script I get the message:
> 
> root... recipients need to be specified
> 
> (or anything similar). I think something is misconfigured, can anybody
> help? I need sendmail to receive smtp-mail via fetchmail (pop-client).
> 
> Dirk
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