on the machine if you do
netstat -an | grep 25 

what happens

it sounds like you may not have configured your mail server
correctly

what mail server are you using? postfix, qmail, or sendmail?

all are configured differently



> On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 19:46, Ben de Luca wrote:
> > Try telneting to port 25 on your email server from external to the mail
> > server. If you get in type
> > 
> > 
> > HELO
> > 
> > 
> > Then type help and try and send an email the fun way
> > 
> > 
> I can't login. 
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused.
> 
> Can you tell me what this means for my email server? More to the point
> why is it sending and receiving internally but not externally?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff 
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