On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:53:33AM +0500, varun_saa@xxxxxxxx wrote: > [varun@saamail varun]$ telnet 64.233.185.27 25 > Trying 64.233.185.27... > > No response try that from the firewall itself. if it still doesn't work, i would propose that your ISP blocks TCP port 25 traffic from customer IP's from leaving it's network (mindspring used to do this, dunno if earthlink continued the trend as i dropped them after they refused to rethink their policy). -j -- "Peter: I'm looking for some toilet training books. Salesman: We have the popular 'everybody poops", or the less popular 'nobody poops but you'. Peter: Well, you see, we're catholic... Salesman: Ah, then you'll want 'you're a naughty, naughty boy, and that's concentrated evil coming out the back of you'." --Family Guy