On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:35:06PM +0000, oinkfreebiker@att.net wrote:
>
> misterasturno@att.net... Connecting to gateway8.att.net. 
> via estmp...
> misterasturno@att.net... Deferred: Connection timed out 
> with gateway8.att.net

This might be a red herring, but when I tried

telnet gateway8.att.net 25

I only received

220 mtiwgwc21.worldnet.att.net ESMTP server (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) ready Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:43:57 +0000

when trying from a computer with a valid MX entry (ie, not mine, only the
mailer)

Cheers,

Patrick