I am really new at this stuff, i have RedHat 7.0 went in to Linuxconf and setup what i thought was sendmail. my MX record at uunet points to mail.myserver.com

I have set up Outlook express to get my mail from home. it pulls the mail from the server but if i want to send i get an error like this:
The connection to the server has failed. Account: '111.111.XXX.XXX', Server: '111.111.XXX.XXX', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

its Microsoft (go figure) the error is useless to me.
the other problem is how do i know that i am going to get mail do i need to poll it from somewhere in UUnet?
thanks
hal

If I understand this correctly, you are trying to send mail from a domain that is different from the doamin on which the mail server is running. As far as I know, this would require you to change the permissions for sending mail which would allow sends from non-local domains = open relay = SPAM vector.

Or it's just a problem with secure authentication on port 25.

Under /etc/mail

add these to "relay-domains"
.com
.net
.org
.edu
.nz
.be
.ws
and to "access"
this

localhost.localdomain RELAY
localhost RELAY
127.0.0.1 RELAY
mail RELAY
mail.myserver.com RELAY

also list you domain in "local-host-names"

Thank you, I will try this

it was late when i posted that, I didnt explain it well.

this is a standalone server, its connected to a T1 (surfing is blazing on that baby) i called UUNET and asked them to send all my mail to "mail.halcoservices.com" they updated the MX record. but my web site is actualy hosted in Detroit and i am in VA and the mail server that i am refering to is in DC, so i want my wife friends etc to be able to use outlook to pull mail from that server.

I know they will need to put something in outlook to say use the following server. i would like it to be mail.halcoservices.com for both pop and smtp.

no when i connect to the server i can get mail from the box that i created as test mail in my box. but i am unable to send mail out.

the other problem is that when i send mail to hal@halcoservices.com it doesnt show up in my mail box, it just dissappears. (it goes to someones bit bucket)

i hope this is a better explantion of my problem.