thanks. I have deleted and reloaded files, changed values and now I no longer get the error message, however now the contact form does not work at all. I press send and nothing happens. I suspect that it might be a port issue – as I am using Gmail and I see that it has port 25 for smtp. I did try to change this to port 465 in case, but still nothing happens. Please advise? url is http://www.itgroup.net.au