I just recently purchased a domain name from godaddy and I'd like to setup an email service on my FreeBSD 6.2 box.

BSD = 192.168.254.100 (static ip so it doesn't switch on me)
myPC = 192.168.254.10 (static too for same reason)

as you can see both are on the same network.

I've done this howto guide:
http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/.../sendmail.html

Steps 1-5 went well w/o any problems, but testing it is where I have failed.

I'm assuming that the email account names are the same as the shell account names, for instance my acct name on that BSD box is raphael, so the email address would be raphael@192.168.254.100 (or once I forward the domain name it'll be raphael@domain of course this would require port forwarding first, but that's a different matter.

Is that correct?
so, in evolution I should have raphael@192.168.254.100 as the recipient of a sent email, right? this is what I have and yet it's still giving me a connection refused error when I try to check and see if there is mail. I'm clearly missing something...

TIA
SSR

How are you trying to check the email?

What error messages are you getting in /var/log/ (I assume there will be a log file for imap-uw otherwise maillog.

Are you aware that a 192.168.X.X IP address is an internal lan address only and not accessible from the internet?

Most email servers will not accept email to username@IPADDRESS as it is probably spam.