So! I finally got mail working. I'm sending this from a terminal window. The trick was indeed that my ISP was blocking port 25. I had them turn it on, but alas that allows people to connect internally to me -- but not for me to connect to external mail servers. Which I think is just very lame. They require you to set up your mailserver to relay through them.
Oh well. In either case, I was able to connect to smtp.gmail.com on port 587. Their relay server is _not_ their MX server. While chatter on this list has implied that's an expectation, it's not a requirement. So they're allowed to do that. However, this raised a question for me. It seems that the smtp= line in /lib/ndb/local doesn't accept a dial string as valid input. Hence, I had to manually hack remotemail to use net!smtp.gmail.com!587, since we will only connect to port 25 by default. Should I fix this, or is this something we're supposed to have to do? --dho
