[ re-sending as the original got munged I think one of the SMTP servers in-route(maybe mine) saw the period and stopped my mail there for some reason.. ] mcclnx mcc wrote: > I did NOT see anything wrong on /var/log/maillog. > Can you telnet to localhost 25 and send a mail that way ? e.g. [aphro at portal:~]$ telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. 220 portal.aphroland.org ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU) helo portal.aphroland.org 250 portal.aphroland.org mail from: centos at linuxpowered.net 250 2.1.0 Ok rcpt to: centos at linuxpowered.net 250 2.1.5 Ok data 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> Subject: hello there testing email (put a period here and hit enter) 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as B5F52808041 quit 221 2.0.0 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. And see if the email arrives at the destination. It seems like the mail server is not working right as Oracle says it's returning a 421 error code(temporary failure). And if the telnet works, try it a second, and a third time to see if it's consistent or not. nate