Mail Server deaf to incoming SMTP

I'm running an EIMS 3.3 mail server, on a G5 iMac 1.8 ghz, OSX 10.4.11. The system worked well for years. I went to an Xserve colo, and now moved, and am trying to resurrect the EIMS mail server.
Email accounts hosted by the server exchange happily whether client is local or remote. Outgoing email to anyone goes through fine. My server sees no connections to deliver mail from the outside world (domains), but remote users can check their accounts.
telnet pacmult.com 25 gets me
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to pacmult.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
Nothing in the error logs, mails hit their accounts ok, just no connections or mail coming in.
Wha???????? Any good SMTP geeks on call? Thanks.....
Message was edited by: pacmult No wifi or internal router, just a cable modem to the server, firewall is in the iMac only, and results are the same with firewall off.

Hi Pterry, thanks for piping up.
I checked all the logs (that I can find), and I don't see a reference to these connection failures. If you can name a particular log of interest, I'll copy it here.
My EIMS logs show no errors, either in the main error log, or receive error log, as it's the mail server appears to never see these incoming attempts.
It was a good idea to check, but I show no other mail services running that would interfere.
I called my cable company and asked if they had a smtp block on my leg, and they swore they different. My old ISP in LA said he's showing a smpt block of some sort.
I tried to send an email to a local account from my yahoo account, and got this daemon bounce:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<[email protected]>:
Connected to 65.175.133.72 but connection died. (#4.4.2)
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.
I checked the mx record, and it appears to be correct.
Day 3, I'm still looking.......

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