anyway to make mail() function to use port 25 on a defined SMTP host instead of the raw/direct spooling as by default as it uses sendmail on local system, what happens when SMTP server is a different box alltogether ? tia ewiz -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]