Eric: Thanks again for your help; it's working again. All: While I've got the patience to work up to my final desired configuration for smtpd, I don't know if any of the rest of you do :)
I'd like to write a section for mail setup in the FAQ. Whether it actually gets included or not is ultimately not up to me; but I'll work under the assumption that it will be anyway (but opinions still welcomed). On the one hand I think I should try my best to complete my desired configuration and ask on the list again when I can't get parts working. On the other hand I want to ask as little as possible so that I can experiment more and get clues from searching around. Chewing on the information and struggling with it for a while makes it more permanent than when it's just given to me right away. However, I suspect this might add a lot of noise to the list. Either option assumes due diligence on my part, reading manpages, searching the list, etc. before posting to list. But you tell me; which of the two is a more preferred approach on misc? Either way (or even if you tell me to take off), I respect everyone's time and appreciate you spending it to help, especially with these "101" type questions. As usual, thanks in advance. -Scott On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Eric Faurot <e...@faurot.net> wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 07:31:42PM -0700, Scott wrote: > > The initial debug advice I got was helpful, so I thought I'd take the > next > > step and add relaying to gmail (back to that in a minute), but > apparently I > > just don't get it still. Rolling back to my previously working setup > failed > > also, this time with a new error: 421. I don't get much help looking for > > explanations of 421 on the web. > > From the log you sent, it fails because the .forward file in your user > dir is empty. This is actually a bug that is fixed in the upcoming > release. Either rm it, or put the username in there, for now. > > > I wondered if somehow I gummed up my queue when I was diddling around > with > > the relay settings. > > > > # ls /var/spool/smtpd/ > > a0 > > > > Ok, so that's my just-failed message, so I flush it, just to be sanitary: > > > > # smtpctl remove a0b31f71a4e509ff > > (BTW, is there a way to flush ALL queued messages? smtpctl(8) doesn't > > allude to it. If there isn't, what's the proper way to do so?) > > Get the envelope ids from the "mailq" output and pass them to "smtpctl > remove". Something like: > > # mailq | cut -d \| -f 1 | xargs -L 1 smtpctl remove > > Eric.
