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Mail will not go out of company. Are my external DNS MX settings correct?

Here is what my Mail Exchanger (MX) shows on Server 2003 RC2:

Host or child domain: (same as parent folder)

Fully qualified domain name (FQDN):
continentalweb.com

Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of mail server:
mail.continentalweb.com. (IS THEIR SUPPOSED TO BE A PERIOD AT THE END HERE?)

Mail server priority:
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supercell29

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I am not getting any messages when sending out. I can send internally but not externally. I assumed that it is our DNS that is the issue.

supercell29

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...well some of us are getting errors when trying to send out of the company:

From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>@mail.continentalweb.com
Date: October 16, 2007 2:35:41 PM CDT
To: "il prepress" <ilprepress@continentalweb.com>
Subject: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours

**********************************************
** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY **
** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE **
**********************************************

The original message was received at Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:35:34 -0500
from localhost [127.0.0.1]

----- Transcript of session follows -----
<cmcallester@stuartassoc.com>... Deferred: Connection reset by cle1.visn.net.
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old
Original-Envelope-Id: D6AA50C5-391E-4D0E-9CF8-C48603920F03@continentalweb.com
Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.continentalweb.com
Arrival-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:35:34 -0500

Final-Recipient: rfc822; cmcallester@stuartassoc.com
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; cmcallester@stuartassoc.com
Action: delayed
Status: 4.2.0
Remote-MTA: DNS; cle1.visn.net
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:35:41 -0500
Will-Retry-Until: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:35:34 -0500

From: "il prepress" <ilprepress@continentalweb.com>
Date: October 16, 2007 10:38:13 AM CDT
To: cmcallester@stuartassoc.com
Cc: "Dave Wyzukovicz" <dwyzukovicz@continentalweb.com>
Subject: 12 pager Z7068

ChiefIT

Sounds like your SMTP service has been stopped on the mail server

supercell29

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Sendmail's queue was deferring emails. I had to go in there and unclog it. The SMTP plumber some would say. Thank you for all your words of wisdom.