I decided to repost my older message about pine because I have a better understanding of my problem. Sendmail picks up mail for root fine from a remote hotmail account or any local user accounts. However, it won't pick up mail for normal users from remote or local accounts. I can even connect to the accounts with pop3 and check inbox for mail. I can also send mail with the normal users.

Please help

Different protocol/functionality, different app I'd say. Sendmail is and MTA (Mail transfer agent), it'll only ship/receive mail (user@otherhost, user!host, fax). Delivering *local* mail is handed off to an MDA (Mail delivery agent). *Getting* pop mail, unless you run sendmail as server on a known and reachable domain as smtp daemon, need something along the lines of fetchmail. *Reading* local pop uses pop3 or imap.

- figure out if each apps config is ok, else run it with a -debug like option, else post the configs
- figure out if the permissions on each mail related file/folder are set right, else post the perms.
- post the relevant bits of the logs/errors.

i have pop3 which connects for the normal users fine. They just don't receive any messages so pop3 doesn't provide them with anything.

I think its a problem with my MDA can someone help with this please thanks

help

i fixed it thanks to everyone who helped.

It turns out that it just didn't like having upper case letters in my usernames.