On 10/27/05, William Arlofski <waa dash m0n0wall at revpol dot com> wrote:
>
> Hi James... Next time you should telnet to the standard SMTP port of 25
> instead of 24. :)
>

you missed the part where he said the mail server is configured on 24.
 (to avoid being directly accessible/easy to find from the Internet
for spammers, since the MX's point to a service provider).

-Chris