On 9/16/2004 4:27 PM, Silencer wrote: > There is also this point to consider. A server can disallow telnet access > to the port if they desire to. That is correct, but it is not relevant to this particular problem. The original poster attempted to connect to port 25 on a system that probably is not, and arguably should not be listening on port 25. -- Paul Russell Senior Systems Administrator OIT Messaging Services Team University of Notre Dame