Popserver:Curious if this can be explained

[Adam Niemirowski <adam qcom com>]

Could any explain why I experienced this when setting up 6.2?

I setup my 6.2 system with pmfirewall and then proceeded to setup my e-mail 
service.  I quickly had sendmail functioning correctly, I could send and 
receive e-mail from the Linux box.   I could even send e-mail from my W98 
box with Eudora.  However, when I tried to check my e-mail with Eudora, I 
got responses that it could not see the popserver.  This went on for quite 
some time.  I finally tried to run inpop3d at a command prompt on the Linux 
box to see if I could read it there.  I could and then I shut it down, 
rebooted and from that time forward, the popserver worked for the client 
machines.  Even after rebooting a number of times, it works fine.

Is it necessary to "initialize" the popserver?????

Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated so if I have to rebuild the 
machine, I won't waste a great deal of time trying to figure it out.

Adam Niemirowski
(1 month Linux newbie)