> did you try adding a port to the SMTP attribute in your /lib/nab/local
Again, very clever! I actually changed the rewrite rule for the gateway to Cape Town: in /mail/lib/rewrite I had ([^!]*)!(.*) | "/mail/lib/qmail '\s' 'net!$smtp'" "'\2@\1'" which now reads: ([^!]*)!(.*) | "/mail/lib/qmail '\s' 'net!$smtp!submit'" "'\2@\1'" That's all it takes (if you have tcp=submit port=587 somewhere in /lib/ndb/* - if not 'net!$smtp!587' will do). Not everyone's solution, but rather painless. Thanks to everybody for your patience. I'm sure some of you would have liked to scream at me. Lucio.