Hi, I am tring ti use serial mail with qmail,but when i run the maildirsmtp it gives the error as shown below maildirsmtp /home/outgoing/Maildir/ outgoing- mygateway domainname serialsmtp: fatal: network write error: timed out serialsmtp: fatal: network write error: timed out tcpclient: unable to connect to mygateway port 25: timed out maildirserial: fatal: making no progress, giving up but when I do telnet mygateway 25 it is working What may be the problem Thanks naveen Chequemail.com - a free web based e-mail service that also pays!!! http://www.chequemail.com