running IIS and PHP on VPS

[Dark09]

I went through and setup IIS to run php and mysql. I'm running into problems with SMTP though. I installed the service and setup the mx record on my adns (@zoneedit.com). I cant seem to get smtp to communicate with anything. The event logs say:

Message delivery to the host '209.85.129.114' failed while delivering to the remote domain 'gmail.com' for the following reason: The remote server did not respond to a connection attempt.

I can connect to smtp locally (via telnet localhost 25 )

I'm thinking something is blocking smtp from getting to the server.

I'm running server 2003, which the firewall service is disabled. Any help would be nice...

Thanks in advance.

[Edge100x]

If you just started renting, then you are running into the 2-week SMTP limitation: http://www.nfoservers.com/termsofservice.php. It automatically goes away after that time.

Unfortunately this limitation was made necessary due to heavy abuse by seemingly legitimate customers who ended up being spammers.