oooopss ..sorry my mistake Amit..i thought u r trying telnet ur loopback ..i never saw port 25...
thanks varun for correcting me..:)..geesh iam getting dumb.... Back to issue.. in ur main.cf do u have the following ... inet_interfaces = all ##all means al interface..if u had specified any particular interface then u can telnet on ly on that interface.. mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.1 relayhost = mail.your.domain.name.come # relayhost = [isp.smtp.ip.address] can be used try the following and see if it works.. telnet mta123.mail.sc5.yahoo.com 25 Amit do send your maillog... Regards, Peeyush Maurya http://www.peeyush.tk/ http://geocities.com/peeyush_maurya/ u all missed RedHat linux meetup at Barista, Noida :)) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/