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

[Courtney Thomas]

Evolution's fine. It's Pan that won't send an email, though it's setup
as Evolution to use port 25.

Courtney


On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 14:27, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> 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