sendmail weirdness

[Osvaldo Gold]

I'm running SCO OpenDesktop 1.1.

I've seen some discussion here recently about sendmail not being able to
deliver mail coming from the outside because of the luid intricacies.

Well, I got bit too.  But I don't know if it's the same problem.  I start
sendmail from /etc/tcp with

     /bin/su root -c " /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m" 2>/dev/null

I poll my uucp mail feed every two hours.  

If I wait for the Poll, the transfer takes place (as I see in the uucp logs) 
but I never see the incoming mail messages.  They just vanish.  I can't find 
them anywhere.  Maybe I don't know enough about the mail system.  I looked in 
/usr/spool/uucp and all its subdirectories, and in /usr/spool/mqueue.

If I start the poll manually with uutry everything works fine.  

What's going on? 

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