Postfix doesn't do anything when I connect to it through telnet or Mozilla Thunderbird

[tom at trancegeek.net]

Hi,

  I'm trying to set up a Postfix SMTP server on my machine (FreeBSD 4.11).  I
read the cheat notes here <http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/mail.html>
and I can get Postfix running.  However, when I try to telnet in or connect
with Mozilla Thunderbird nothing happens.

Here is an example:

tom at killdozer$ telnet 127.0.0.1 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.angrycoder.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
[some time goes by here...]
[I get angry and mash the escape character like a monkey] ^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.

Here is some [hopefully!] useful info:

tom at killdozer$ ps auxw | grep post
postfix   275  0.0  0.2  1328 1032  ??  I     9:48PM   0:00.02 proxymap -t unix
-u
postfix   175  0.0  0.2  1384 1084  ??  I     9:47PM   0:00.02 qmgr -l -t fifo
-u
postfix   174  0.0  0.2  1348 1060  ??  I     9:47PM   0:00.02 pickup -l -t fifo
-u
root      173  0.0  0.2  1328 1040  ??  Is    9:47PM   0:00.08
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/master


tom at killdozer$ uname -a
FreeBSD killdozer.angrycoder.org 4.11-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0: Fri Apr
22 01:01:47 EDT 2005    
admin at 63-246-146-190.domain.tld:/usr/src/sys/compile/TOMKERNEL  i386

[TOMKERNEL is just generic with SSE instructions enabled]

Thank you in advance for any help FreeBSD Gurus!