hi i am Viknesh,

I installed sendmail in my fedora 7 system.
i took the advice as provided in this url
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/025no...ail/index.html

I started with "Configuring s`endmail"

Then i went with installing MailScanner without going to clamav and spamassasin installation as i don need it.

I just configured my local domain and assigned a my own IP address.
But there was nothing mentioned with configuring the port number.
So i just went with "netstat -nl" command.
And it showed that my IP is lisening on port 53.

I created 2 users for the domain and i sent mail via telnet.
The mail entry got entered in maillog file.
But i receive multiple unwanted entries that mail is sent from "root" to "root". But i didn't bother about that.

I proceeded with the next step of configuring the two users on thunderbird. I configured with pop3 on port 53 with the localdomain.
Now i sent mail from one user to the other. The mail entry got stored in maillog but i couldn't retrieve the mail on my inbox.

But the mail gets stored in /var/mail/<user>

Why is it so??
Can anyone please solve it??

Thanks in advance..

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