Relay Outgoing Mail Through Host Not Updating

We relay our mail through an external company and I have added the entry to Relay Outgoing Mail Through Host field and enabled the tick box. What ever I do I cannot get these changes to take affect. I have tried modifying the main.cf and enabled the relay option without any joy. After modifying these I performed a full restart but it still hasn't taken affect.
This has been working up to now but after a power cut stopped for some reason.
We are running Mac OS X Server 10.4.8.
Thanks
Ross

I'd noticed a small glitch with the GUI during earlier testing. Might not clear things for you but worth trying...
Set it with the Relay Outgoing Mail ticked and relay server entered - click Save.
Wait for whirling update thingy to stop.
Delete the relay server name then tab out of field (field fills with greyed out "relay.example.com"), only then untick the option - Save.
Wait for whirling update thingy to stop.
Tick the option, fill in the relay server - Save.
If no change, people will probably need the unedited output from "postconf -n" and an example mail.log entry showing an outgoing message leaving the server.
-david

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