Problems sending mail

Hi folks, I am having problems sending mail. I have tried both Entourage and mail, and get the same problem that I can´t connect to the outgoing smtp server. I haven´t changed any settings... This just suddenly started happening. I can send mail with the exact same settings on another computer on my network here, so the server is in working order.
Any help would be hugely appreciated.

This issue should be brought to the attention of your ISP or whomever maintains your email server.

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On 23.03.2011 20:06, BPainter wrote:
>
> System: Netware 6.5.8 with all current patches.
>
> We are having a problem sending mail to one particular domain
> (neigerllp.com). When a message is sent our GW GWIA returns a "553
> sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)" error
> message. We receive that error because our mail server is looking at
> their secondary mx instead of their primary mx. If I unload named then
> our mail server looks for the secondary external DNS server and mail is
> sent without error to this domain. When named is not loaded it sends to
> the correct mx server listed. If I reload named it will work for a
> while but then default to the incorrect mail server. It also works for
> a while when I load named -pa, but eventually reverts back to the
> incorrect server. Could someone help me resolve this issue?
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