Thanks a lot, guys, I knew this was something stupid and that one of you would get it right away. Robert put me on the right track with this: On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > bash-2.03# telnet 24.201.62.169 25 > Trying 24.201.62.169... > <nothing> Of course, all my telnet tests were made *inside* my firewall... Once I opened up port 25, eveything got delivered correctly. Once again, thanks all. Dan.