Mail relay issue since lion server install

I upgraded (or not) my Mac Mini Server with Snow Leopard, to Lion Server.
I'm now getting mail relay errors when sending email to an account on my server from gmail.
"Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 554 554 5.7.1 <[email protected]>: Relay access denied (state 14)."
I'll post postconf -n if required.
voigtstr.com has an A name at the domain name registrar
mail.voigtstr.com has an mx record.
dig +short MX voigtstr.com returns
1 mail.voigtstr.com.
voigtstr.com and mail.voigtstr.com both point to my external ip address
any pointers?

LincNesh,
Seems the problem has been solved by Peter Rauen.
See this discussion: Mail relay SASL problem / postconf -n
I checked on my server and Peter is right. Although there are configs in /etc/postfix there is another path with postfix conf files: /Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix
I actually only had to insert this line to main.cf there: smtp_sasl_security_options =
After a postfix reload my mails are being delivered via dyndns again.
Cheers!

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[link] What I Wish I'd Known Before My Lion Server Install

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