ipopd error

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I'm trying to get a mail server going, and after weeks of reading reams of
pages and docs, I settled on sendmail and began installing using the
walkthrough at http://www.aboutdebian.com/internet.htm as a guide.

Once SMTP was tested and working, I went to the next step

'apt-get install ipopd'

The install goes exactly as shown on the web page, however when testing it
things fall apart and I get results like this:

apostle5406@debian:~$ telnet 127.0.0.1 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK POP3 localhost.localdomain v2003.83 server ready
user apostle5406
-ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command
help
-ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command
?
-ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command
quit
+OK Sayonara
Connection closed by foreign host.

Apparently, only the 'quit' command works, everything else gives the error
shown.

re-installing and dpkg-reconfigure ipopd doesn't change anything.
Googling on the error message shows me lots of posts and pages talking about
it, but so far no answers.

Other than that, how do I go about adding email accounts? Where does
the user info go so that the pop3 and smtp-auth servers can use it?

I'm not looking to make a 'production server' here, I just need to provide a
couple dozen email accounts for users not on this machine.

Thanks for any help

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