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: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.77.27] said:
550-5.7.1 [85.5.146.141] The IP you’re using to send mail is not authorized
to 550-5.7.1 send email directly to our servers. Please use the SMTP relay
at your 550-5.7.1 service provider instead. Learn more at
550 5.7.1 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10336
v8si3224831eeh.26 (in reply to end of DATA command)
Reporting-MTA: dns; 141-146.5-85.cust.bluewin.ch
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 2E76610EC30
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; crallion@crallion.com
Arrival-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:09:35 +0200 (CEST)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; connor.cn@gmail.com
Original-Recipient: rfc822;connor.cn@gmail.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Remote-MTA: dns; gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
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So anyway, it looks like it doesn’t have much to do with your server setup, but I was just wondering if anyone else has received this error message, since gmail is pretty popular. I haven’t tried it with hotmail, or other big ones yet, but I have tested with another private mail server, which it successfully sent the mail to. I really need the ability to send it to a gmail account, so I was wondering if anyone had a fix.

I was able to fix it. By trying to log in via the Terminal, I noticed that for some reason, I was able to login over localhost but not over 127.0.0.1. It probably has something to do with the DB config, or the router setup, maybe even virtual hosts.

All I ended up doing to fix the problem was change “127.0.0.1″ in the mysql_virtual_* files to “localhost”, which worked well.

Also, upon further research into dovecot configuration, I figured that in “dovecot-sql.conf”, the user query and password query lines have better syntax like this:

user_query = SELECT ‘/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n’ as home, \
concat(“*:storage=”, quota) AS quota_rule FROM mailbox \
WHERE username = “%u” AND active = “1″

password_query = SELECT username as user, password, \
‘/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n’ as userdb_home, \
concat(“*:storage=”, quota) AS userdb_quota_rule \
FROM mailbox WHERE username = ‘%u’ AND active = ’1′

In the storage line, I changed it from your’s to “*:storage=” because “dirsize:storage=” is old and less efficient.
Also, with this configuration, you need to have these lines on your dovecot.conf file

mail_location =maildir:~/Maildir
mail_uid = 102
mail_gid = 102

and the userdb should be changed to (adding the prefetch, for one query):

userdb prefetch {
}
userdb sql {
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
}

If you have other reasons or suggestions for using your original syntax, please tell, as the more info I have, the better.

This puts the userdb and passdb into one mysql query.

Could be many things, what is the actual error message that Google returns. It could be that your ISP has blocked port 25 (you need to open up the submission port). Your firewall is blocking incoming traffic. etc.

When you said this:

250-your.mailserver.tld
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250 8BITMIME

You meant

250-”your.ISP-HOSTNAME.tld”, right?
Because when editing the postfix conf, I had these, which I obviously followed:

# The hostname is the hostname you get from your ISP.
# Don’t take one from your virtual domains
myhostname = server.isp-domain.tld
# you can reduce the debug level to level 0 when every is working.
debug_peer_level = 2

Was I not supposed to use my ISP’s domain?? Why won’t Google accept mail from my server?

a login jack@mydomain.com password

and recieved:

a NO [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary authentication failure.

This was in system.log when I try to login with openssl

Aug 23 23:11:02 Mac-Server postfix/trivial-rewrite[20327]: warning: connect to mysql server 127.0.0.1: Can’t connect to MySQL server on ’127.0.0.1′ (61)
Aug 23 23:11:02 Mac-Server postfix/trivial-rewrite[20327]: fatal: mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf(0,lock|fold_fix): table lookup problem
Aug 23 23:11:03 Mac-Server postfix/smtpd[20211]: warning: problem talking to service rewrite: Unknown error: 0
Aug 23 23:11:03 Mac-Server postfix/master[10373]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 20327 exit status 1
Aug 23 23:11:03 Mac-Server postfix/master[10373]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite: bad command startup — throttling

The mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf file appears fine, with a copy/paste of your code, and the real postfix db passwd filled in (of course).

Any help??

There was another error, which you explain how to fix here:
http://switch.richard5.net/2006/08/19/fatal-open-lock-file-pidmasterpid/

However, it appears this fix did not fix the problem, beacause I had the error earlier, I fixed it per your instructions, and now it appears that on reboot, it started up again. Can I just unload the file from launchctl and then delete it (or rename)? Or is that an insufficient fix?