SMTP Hell

So i've been using my email server for a week now and then i thought i'd use thunderbird for a wile, instead of using the webmail.
Well everything worked, except for SMTP.

So i'm hacking away furiously at the config files trying to figure out why this thing does not work.
So then after trying out telnet mooktakim.com 25, i realised that it wasn't my server.
The university has blocked all outgoing port 25 connections.
So here i am scratching my head when all of the problem was not on my server.

I can understand it though. its to stop all these viruses and worms etc that hijack your computers to send spam and other un wanted emails.
They've also provided us with an SMTP server.

That was really stressful.