thanks for ypur replies. Yes, this is the solution, to give one of the invocations of sendmail a different PID file option: /usr/lib/sendmail -OPidFile=/var/run/sendmail2.pid ...
and for those who want to use mailscanner, i finally found this message: http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2006-May/060603.html be careful that sendmail method has few changes since 2004 gerard This message posted from opensolaris.org
