One more thing....
When I configure the SMTP notification for this client, I perform such steps from the BE SR Manager server which allows centralized configuration of many clients.
I tried these same steps on the client, I get an error stating the following:
Error ECE3006A: Unable to send notification email.
This message could not be sent to the SMTP server. The tranport error code was 0x80070057. The server response was not avaialble.