On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 12:03 -0800, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote: > I also do simple debugging work to directly connect to > these companies' mail servers, mainly "telnet > mailservers.othercompany.com 25" commands,but they > always timeout. "nmap -p 25 > mailservers.othercompany.com " commands say that the > TCP 25 ports are filtered. > > Any suggestions for me to send out emails? Send through your ISP's SMTP server (read how to use smarthost in sendmail), or find some other SMTP server that'll let you use a different port than 25. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.