Sendmail / postfix in laravel homestead vagrant

I have a closet for laravel-homestead. I installed mailutils "apt-get install mailutils" Then it asked me to configure postfix, I choose the option "Internet ..". When I try to send an email by running

echo "Test" | mail -s "testing email" myemail@gmail.com

I am not receiving any emails.

/var/log/mail.log:

Nov  7 22:28:43 homestead postfix/master[1553]: reload -- version 2.11.0, configuration /etc/postfix
Nov  7 22:29:13 homestead postfix/pickup[2289]: 1364660ECE: uid=0 from=<root@homestead>
Nov  7 22:29:13 homestead postfix/cleanup[2299]: 1364660ECE: message-id=<20141107222913.1364660ECE@homestead>
Nov  7 22:29:13 homestead postfix/qmgr[2290]: 1364660ECE: from=<root@homestead>, size=331, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Nov  7 22:29:43 homestead postfix/smtp[2301]: connect to gmail.com[74.125.230.149]:25: Connection timed out

      

        
        
        
      

    

I am pretty new when it comes to Linux machines. I've been trying to get sendmail to work with a VM with laravel-homestead with no luck.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Many thanks.