Mail is not being delivered even after receiving a 250-OK from Gmail

Testing my KumoMTA instance; I have successfully received messages from Gmail.
My next test step was to try and send to Gmail.

swaks --to <me>@gmail.com --from me@<my domain> --add-header 'message-id:<uuid>' --ehlo moto --server 127.0.0.1 --port 25

I see the following in kcli trace-smtp-server

[root@srv1081723 ~]# tailer --tail /var/log/kumomta
/var/log/kumomta/20251110-141442.922630109
{"type":"Reception","id":"9a49765fbe3f11f0a65dc4e8d4b5917b","sender":"me@w<domain>","recipient":"<me>@gmail.com","queue":"gmail.com","site":"","size":1553,"response":{"code":250,"enhanced_code":null,"content":"","command":null},"peer_address":{"name":"moto","addr":"127.0.0.1"},"timestamp":1762784082,"event_time":"2025-11-10T14:14:42.922551879Z","created":1762784082,"created_time":"2025-11-10T14:14:42.920815900Z","num_attempts":0,"bounce_classification":"Uncategorized","egress_pool":null,"egress_source":null,"source_address":null,"feedback_report":null,"meta":{},"headers":{},"delivery_protocol":null,"reception_protocol":"ESMTP","nodeid":"8e7a1adc-0a8f-435b-80e1-0a1d3e60de18","session_id":"4c81f60b-c7e5-4653-937a-1cb521f730ec"}

{"type":"Delivery","id":"9a49765fbe3f11f0a65dc4e8d4b5917b","sender":"me@<domain>","recipient":"<me>@gmail.com","queue":"gmail.com","site":"","size":1553,"response":{"code":200,"enhanced_code":null,"content":"wrote to maildir with id=1762784082.#6M922839020P127455V2052I553649954.srv1081723.hstgr.cloud,S=1553","command":null},"peer_address":null,"timestamp":1762784082,"event_time":"2025-11-10T14:14:42.923798972Z","created":1762784082,"created_time":"2025-11-10T14:14:42.920815900Z","num_attempts":0,"bounce_classification":"Uncategorized","egress_pool":null,"egress_source":null,"source_address":null,"feedback_report":null,"meta":{},"headers":{},"delivery_protocol":"Maildir","reception_protocol":"ESMTP","nodeid":"8e7a1adc-0a8f-435b-80e1-0a1d3e60de18"}

But it’s not landing, even as I’m monitoring All Mail if/when it lands in Spam.

You wrote to a local maildir

Your delivery protocol in that second log line says “Maildir” so whatever you did to configure things, you didn’t even talk to Gmail.

lol

Or yeah, what Tom said more succinctly.

… Well, that would explain it.

It happens :slightly_smiling_face: