Rails - Feb 2006 - Sending email in functional test times out

I''m writing a functional test to see if an email was generated from a
particular action.  The action of course sends an email at some
point..but the test says it times out. 
config.action_mailer.delivery_method is set to :test in
config/environments/test.rb, not sure why it would be ignoring that. 
If I take out my email config from environment.rb, the test runs fine.
 Here''s the exception:

Loaded suite test/functional/contact_controller_test
Started
./usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in `new'': execution expired
(Timeout::Error)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:206:in `old_open''
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout''
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout''
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:206:in `old_open''
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:393:in `do_start''
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:378:in `start''
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:316:in `start''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.1.5/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:436:in
`perform_delivery_smtp''
         ... 24 levels...
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit/autorunner.rb:200:in
`run''
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit/autorunner.rb:13:in
`run''
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit.rb:285
        from test/functional/contact_controller_test.rb:22