Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

["Duncan McDonald" <duncan_mcdonald@ieee.org>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

> so you can get to the machine, i.e. the port is not blocked. can you
> manually mail user@encomium.com.au from that telnet session? check
>
> http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/smtp.html for info on this.

> A

Thanks for the link.

Yes I successfully sent a remote email to the domain via telnet on port 25. 
Although when I try connect to the POP port (110), I get a 'connection 
refused' message.

Shouldn't I be able to connect to either port via telnet?

-Duncan