Nah, I just didn't have a factotum entry for SMTP username and pass. Everything is fine otherwise.
ak
--- Begin Message ---> EHLO plan9 > the connection is lost and upas tries again -- something is amiss. I seem to recall that MTAs are set to demand a full FQDN for the EHLO message? I guess GMAIL could send you some explanatory message. ++L
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