On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:40:48PM +0000, Kevin Jones wrote:
> 
> What does sendmail do with the hostname that causes it to hang if it's
> not there?

Sendmail (any SMTP server, really) greets a connection to it with
the hostname of the machine so that loops of the machine sending
mail to itself can be avoided.

Emmanuel



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