Sendmail no delivering to imap inbox

Hi I'm having some problems making sendmail and cyrus working together. Sendmail won't or can't deliver the inbound mails to the user's inbox. The mail ends up in /var/spool/mqueue/q9SD and I just get a message in /var/log/maillog: Oct 28 14:05:56 tourist sendmail[1402]: g9SD5tF01400: to=<[EM

has imapd started?

I've been trying to install cyrus for a day now and I've reched the point where issuing "/usr/cyrus/bin/master &" doesn't cause a bunch of error messages in log/message. But my problem now is when testing the imap server by "telnet localhost imap" or "imtest -p imap localhost" nothing happens, no