Mail doesn't get delivered

I've just upgraded from SuSE 7.2 to SuSE 8.2 sendmail 8.11 -> 8.12 Mail is just not getting delivered. # ls /var/spool/clientmqueue/ | wc -l 4924 a few minutes later # ls /var/spool/clientmqueue/ | wc -l 4884 But I see nothing in my mail box (pine, berkley mail doesn't matter)! I see the mail going past in the log window.. Everything looks right including the dir permissions mail doesn't get delivered even locally and even with a vanilla default sendmail config.. I've been pulling out my hair for a couple of days over this and have run out of ideas.. I've been watching the logs but nothing interesting appears /var/logxs/mail.err Nov 13 13:54:34 xxx sendmail[29623]: hAD2qxJH029623: SYSERR(root): Too many hops 26 (25 max): from <> via localhost, to /var/log/mail Nov 13 13:56:12 xchange sendmail[29565]: hAD2qsdN029565: from=<>, size=16315, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200311130256.hAD2qqfW029548@xxx.net>, proto=ESMTP, relay=mail@localhost [127.0.0.1] I can log into the port and check sendmail and it appears to have everything okay.. can anyone help please ??? I'm stuck here! DNS is fine