installed package

configured sendmail per instructions (and i really followed them this time)

i keep getting these in my logs

Milter (spfmilter): local socket name /var/run/spfmilter/spfmilter.sock unsafe
Milter (spfmilter): to error state

so, i checked the process table and sure enough, there was no spfmilter process running

if i restarted it using init.d/spfmilter

i'd have the process running and i'd see messages in the logs about spfmilter doing it's thing

but eventually, i'd get more messages in my logs and spfmilter would be dead

from a console, i ran it this way

/usr/sbin/spfmilter --debug --nodaemon --user spfmilter --pidfile /var/run/spfmilter/spfmilter.pid --markonly /var/run/spfmilter/spfmilter.sock 2>&1 | tee spfmilter.log

and eventually, got this to the console

*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x08054530 ***

that's the story so far...