On 4-Jul-2009, at 13:10, Jeff Stampes wrote:
$ telnet tigger.net 25 Trying 198.59.16.20... Connected to tigger.net. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host.
I'd guess that your inlaws's ISP is blocking access out on port 25. -- Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.