[ale] why would a connection be refused on port 25 of my server when trying to send out mail ?

[Paul Cartwright]

On Sat September 24 2005 4:25 pm, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> My email program [Evolution] uses port 25 to send out [smtp] email
> with no problem.
>
> But when I try to send an email from my news program [Pan], also
> using port 25, my server is refusing the connection.
>
> How do I trouble shoot this, please ?

check how you have evolution setup. are you using your ISPs SMTP 
server? do you have it setup for authentication(evolution)? 
 you might check the mail, mail.err and mail.info files under /var/log

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