Outbound SMTP connection

[Dumb Kid]

Please disregard.  We found out it's the ISP that's filtering the outbound 
SMTP traffic.   Thanks.


>From: "Dumb Kid" <dumbkid at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux 
<redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
>To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Outbound SMTP connection
>Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:31:10 +0000
>
>Hi all,
>
>I have a ES v3 pre-insatlled on a DELL server.  Somehow, I cannot
>create any outbound smtp connections.  This is what happen:
>
>[dumbkid at dsvr-1 t]$ telnet mx1.mail.yahoo.com smtp
>Trying 67.28.113.10...
>
>
>It just hangs.  It does not matter which mail server I tried, same
>result.  I even tried disable the iptables "service iptables  
stop".
>  Same thing.   So, any emails supposed to forward outside of the
>company to @yahoo.com are all stucked in the mailq.
>
>I am wondering what could be preventing me from creating outbound
>smtp connection?  This is a fresh install.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Tom
>
>
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