> Like as not your ISP prevents you from sending email on port 25 except > for delivery to their mail server. > > can you telnet on port 25 to the external mail servers? My guess is > that youre' going to time out when you try to do that. You may need to > forward all your mail through your ISP's mail relay. >> Raymond I am going to replace the firewall. It seems to be contributing to the problem. Upon restarting it many of the messages are able to be delivered from the queue. A few that should go never do leave the queue.