Lion mail won't save my SMTP port

My mail setup requires SMTP to use 1025 for the port. I change this under the preferences but if I restart the mail program, it does not appear to save this setting. Is this a bug or can I set this manually behind the scenes to avoid having to change this each time I restart the program?

Try deleting the server from the smtp list, save the changes and quit Mail. Then open up Keychain and remove the smtp server for that account from the password list plus any smtp duplicates for that account.
Open mail and see if the server deletion held. If so, recreate the smtp server for that account.

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