sendmail *not* as a daemon

If I don't start the sendmail daemon I am unable to send mail. I know that this used to work a while back (SuSE 7.x?). Can anone tell me how I can modify my sendmail configuration to make this work? This is the message that shows up in /var/log/mail: stat=Deferred: Connection refused by localhost If I restart sendmail, the deferred mail gets delivered. -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert@paulsenonline.net