Thank you slylos.
I assumed that if I can ping it that I can connect smtp. I understand, that most smtp servers, these days, do not accept connections from source addresses that do not have a MX record - I have a DSL connection.
I just installed and configured qmail on a gentoo system. So far, everything I've tested seems to work fine but when I inject a message to a remote user, the message is defered and never successfuly delivered. I've tried several destination domains.
The qmail-send log says:
deferral...
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