Thanks for the replies folks.. for some reason, it decided to work ??? perhaps due to a stop and then restarting it, but it now accepts the host:port with no problem. Barry Brimer wrote: > <snip> > > >It would not be my first choice, but on your firewall you could use DNAT to >throw the smtp destination port on your mail server to port 587 on your mail >server. > >Barry >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > -- Snowman