Mail and hotmail help !!!!

Help !! This has been going on for about a week now.I can receive mail ( though mail on my imac ) from my hotmail account,but everytime i try to send an email this message comes up.
Connections to the server “smtp.live.com” on the default ports timed out
Select a different outgoing mail server from the list below or click Try Later to leave the message in your Outbox until it can be sent.
Any ideas why and what i can do ? ( im not that great with computers so please be basic !!!! ) thanks

Hello, several reports of HotMail troubles lately, but have you logged in using WebMail in a Browser to see if the locked sending?
In Mail's Window Menu, choose Connection Doctor, any red dots for status, if so what is the exact message?
Then click the Show Details button & Check again.
The Password rejection can confuse people since it's a catch all meaning...
This Password, Username, Authentication method... is not recognized on this Port to this Server.
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The receiving email ports are:
IMAP is port 143
IMAP-SSL is port 993
POP is port 110
POP-SSL is port 995
Outgoing ports are...
SMTP and SMTP-SSL is on ports 25, 587 and 465. Port 587 has to be SSL, and port 465 is enforced TLS-wrapped and is generally used by Outlook users.

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I'm sorry to ask something that I'm sure has been dealt with many times. I've searched all around and found many threads that seem very close, but I guess there's some little difference that always ends up confusing me. I also get confused by what seems to me to be ambiguous terminology. Anyway, I'm pulling my hair out, so I've finally decided to ask for help.
I'm sorry that this post is so long -- I just don't know what bit of info might be important. I'm trying to give a detailed description of my setup so experienced people can give me better advice.
Here's my situation.
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(1) I've purchased a domain name through my ISP. Let's call it mydomain.tld
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(3) I have defined an A record pointing to my static WAN IP.
(4) I have deifined an MX record pointing to the same static WAN IP.
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(10) I have also forwarded port 25 through the outer router to the SLS. That does not work yet.
The SLS
(11) When I did the initial install, I gave the SLS the name mydomain.private (I some places, Server Admin gives the name mydomain.local ... I don't know why.)
(12) I set up the INTERNAL DNS on the SLS to handle all initial DNS queries from my LANs, with my ISP's DNS as a forwarder.
(13) I set up the DHCP on my routers to assign the internal DNS server on the SLS as the primary DNS, and my ISP's DNS server as the secondary -- so clients on my LANS are looking at the right DNS servers.
(14) DNS seems to work fine on both my LANs.
BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER:
If anyone sees any problems with what I have done so far -- Please say so.
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(15) I created a few network user accounts on SLS.
(16) Using squirrelmail, they were able to send and receive messages to each other -- using a browser on the SLS machine or a browser on any other computer on the LANs. But this is all resolved through the internal DNS, using mydomain.private
(17) Mail clients (Mail.app) on the LAN can also retrieve these messages. But I can't send mail using a regular mail client ... and squirrelmail only works internally with mydomain.private
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I see. So "secondary" doesn't mean "in case the primary fails" -- it means something more like "another one in the pool of possible DNS servers". Doesn't that present a problem in the event that my server is down? Why is this preferred as opposed to clearly defined prioritized list? (Then there is another issue of some services using mDNSResponder in some cases and resolv.conf -- at least that's fairly well documented.)
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(3) I have defined an A record pointing to my static WAN IP.
(4) I have deifined an MX record pointing to the same static WAN IP.
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Yes. You are right. That's very good of you to point that out. I did have it pointing to an IP address. (My ISPs simplistic DNS control panel is in Spanish, and I was confused about whether "nombre" referred to a name or number.) I had discovered this through brute force trial and error. This sort of thing was very difficult to test, since I don't have control over many of the DNS parameters (like TTL). That was probably my main problem. Now I can send and receive mail from my server to outside accounts, and from outside accounts to my server.
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I'm looking to see that the router forwarded the port correctly.
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Now you'll see how slow I am. I'm reading along, running through all of this in my head, imagining all of my steps ... And only now do I realize that if (as of my latest experiments) my server has been able to receive mail from outer accounts -- then the router must be forwarding things and the mail server is, to some extent, working fine. Okay. I'm still going to go through these steps anyway to see what it should look like.
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Is there really any reason that a small setup like mine should use "mail.mydomain.com" instead of just "mydomain.com". Since I don't have a separate machine dedicated to mail, maybe it's just an unnecessary complication. I was just copying what I've seen around (configuration for mail and articles I've read).
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On remote computers, I couldn't get any further than this.
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DATA
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Were you going to add something else here?
Well, any comments or insights that you might add will be very much appreciated. I'm going to continue sending and receiving and making little tweaks. It's really pretty confusing for a newbie. I thank you a lot for all the time you spent reading and helping me.
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