Sendmail/postfix doesn't always deliver emails

Hi,
I'm running 10.3.5 and have some processes there that send emails via sendmail when they need to (build notification emails). I am not customizing the sendmail/postfix configuration at all. Most of the time things work great but once in a while the following happens:
1 - I notice that an email that should have been sent out has not been received
2 - log into the box as root
3 - give sendmail a kick by typing the following
% sendmail
garbage garbage
^d
4 - watch as the email arrives (late, of course :-)).
In /var/log/system.log and /var/log/mail./log I see these error messages whose date/time stamp is right about the time the email should have been sent:
Dec 19 18:35:10 is-build20 postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
Dec 19 18:35:10 is-build20 postfix/master[14433]: terminating on signal 15
Dec 19 18:35:50 is-build20 postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Dec 19 18:35:50 is-build20 postfix/postqueue[17470]: fatal: Cannot flush mail queue - mail system is down
Dec 19 18:35:51 is-build20 postfix/master[17468]: daemon started -- version 2.0.10
I have users complaning about not receiving emails so as a workaround I'm setting up a cron job to kick sendmail once an hour like so:
"postfix start; sleep 5; postfix flush"
Anyone have ideas on what is happening and how to remedy the situation?
TIA
dual 1.33 Ghz G4 Mac OS X (10.3.5)

Kyle--
It kind of sounds like something I ran into a while back. the easiest way to fix it is to open the /etc/hostconfig file and change the line:
MAILSERVER=-AUTOMATIC-to
MAILSERVER=-YES-and restarting your computer.
If that line is "AUTOMATIC", when you start up, a process called postfix-watch is started and it stops and starts Postfix. I had this problem on a web server and the symptoms were very much as you described.
I'd suggest just setting up Postfix to send email. That's what I have done, and I no longer have that problem. I've use the directions here. Or your can use Postfix Enabler, which is a GUI version. If you set up Postfix, just make sure postfix-watch isn't running anymore...
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