qmail under 8.0-STABLE

Fri Jul 16 04:28:51 UTC 2010

I have the following config:

FreeBSD ppert-zone.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Wed Apr 14
01:44:13 UTC 2010
root at canopus.ispsystem.net:/root/src/sys/i386/compile/ISPSYSTEM  i386

it is a vps running via a jail.   I have installed mail/qmail and added
it to rc.conf.   It starts just fine but no remote mail ever gets
delivered/received.  DNS wise the machine is pointed to a A record for
it's domain but the provider has not (and will not) set up a reverse.

Note: According to qmail-qstat/qmail-qread the mail is not in the queue
either like it was before adding qmail startup to the rc.conf

Ideas?