Cannot send or receive email

Hi all, was trying to install pop-before smtp and all went well with the installation following a guide from this forum.

However, Now I can neither send out nor receive any mail. My log files look like this;

com.zimbra.common.service.ServiceException: system failure: MessagingException
ExceptionId:btpool0-8:1221546362063:2f44326c94ece8f2
Code:service.FAILURE
at com.zimbra.common.service.ServiceException.FAILURE (ServiceException.java:253)
at com.zimbra.cs.mailbox.MailSender.sendMimeMessage(M ailSender.java:327)
at com.zimbra.cs.mailbox.MailSender.sendMimeMessage(M ailSender.java:117)
at com.zimbra.cs.service.mail.SendMsg.doSendMessage(S endMsg.java:184)
at com.zimbra.cs.service.mail.SendMsg.handle(SendMsg. java:150)
at com.zimbra.soap.SoapEngine.dispatchRequest(SoapEng ine.java:410)
at com.zimbra.soap.SoapEngine.dispatch(SoapEngine.jav a:267)
at com.zimbra.soap.SoapEngine.dispatch(SoapEngine.jav a:159)
at com.zimbra.soap.SoapServlet.doPost(SoapServlet.jav a:266)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:727)
at com.zimbra.cs.servlet.ZimbraServlet.service(Zimbra Servlet.java:188)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:820)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(Ser vletHolder.java:487)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedCha in.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1093)
at org.mortbay.servlet.UserAgentFilter.doFilter(UserA gentFilter.java:81)
at org.mortbay.servlet.GzipFilter.doFilter(GzipFilter .java:132)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedCha in.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(Se rvletHandler.java:360)
at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle( SecurityHandler.java:216)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(Se ssionHandler.java:181)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(Co ntextHandler.java:716)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebA ppContext.java:406)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection .handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:211)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle (HandlerCollection.java:114)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(Ha ndlerWrapper.java:139)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.rewrite.RewriteHandler.h andle(RewriteHandler.java:350)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(Ha ndlerWrapper.java:139)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:313)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(Htt pConnection.java:506)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.co ntent(HttpConnection.java:844)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser. java:644)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpPa rser.java:205)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnec tion.java:381)
at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(Selec tChannelEndPoint.java:396)
at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.ru n(BoundedThreadPool.java:442)
Caused by: com.zimbra.cs.mailbox.MailSender$SafeMessagingExce ption: Read timed out; chained exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.readServerResponse (SMTPTransport.java:1598)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTra nsport.java:1356)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SM TPTransport.java:399)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:275)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:156)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:105)
at javax.mail.Transport.send0(Transport.java:168)
at javax.mail.Transport.send(Transport.java:98)
at com.zimbra.cs.mailbox.MailSender.sendMessage(MailS ender.java:456)
at com.zimbra.cs.mailbox.MailSender.sendMimeMessage(M ailSender.java:251)
... 33 more

Someone kindly help. I have tried everything including undoing all the changes that I made in installing pop-before-smtp but still not able to do anything.

Regards,
Mugo