generic sendmail problem(relaying not allowed)

["Walter L. Preuninger II" <walterp@fnbhs.com>]

I have sendmail 8.9.0 running on a Debian 2.0 machine.

When I boot the system, and have mail sent to it, I receive messages that
state relaying is denied.

If I /etc/init.d/sendmail stop ; /etc/init.d/sendmail start, everything
works correctly.

Shouldn't the first invocation of /etc/init.d/sendmail at boot pick up the
correct sendmail configuration?

TIA

Walter L. Preuninger II