OK. Problem solved.
The problem was caused by the multitude of hostnames associated with the
external IP addresses serviced by this firewall. One of the names was
the mail server's name, so sendmail thought it was the mail server. I
decided to add dummy entries into the /etc/hosts file, so that
I cannot get the default OpenBSD 4.5 sendmail to forward an email
sent to root to a remote mailbox on a system configured as a
firewall (multi-homed). This is easy from my other OpenBSD
systems, but this one system just refuses to work. All of my
OpenBSD systems are very vanilla. Take note in th
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