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Awesome, thanks! Sounds like you've got me on the right path, I appreciate the help.

Ah, then I probably don't need it -- I already have Entware installed, I'm just not clear about how to ensure it's always in the path at startup. If I manually update the path in an SSH session then Entware seems to work -- I can run opkg, although I haven't installed anything yet. And more generally, I'm not sure how to…

Thanks, installing your meta repo is easy, but I don't understand what that simplifies for me regarding Entware. (I am installing it anyway though, it has nano, and vi gives me a headache!)

Hmm... those instructions leave a bit to be desired (er... learning opportunity). I had a thought while working on installation -- will a firmware update wipe all of this out? (I'm vaguely aware this can be set up on a USB drive, are there instructions somewhere?) Edit: I'm stuck at step 5 of the Entware instructions…

Oh, I see, it's just a package manager. Very cool. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks for the ideas. I'm trying to understand the scope of change that installing Entware implies (I'm an experienced developer, ~40 years, but have only been playing with Linux for a couple months). It looks pretty interesting, the same email relay I already added to the Pi is even there. Would it replace BusyBox? No…

Realized I can tcpdump the mDNS port (5353) on the Pi and it does seem that the NAS tries to resolve "raspberrypi.local" when I hit the apply button to send the test email.

Running this on the Pi shows nothing, which suggests the NAS isn't even trying to connect (that IP is the NAS). sudo tcpdump -i any -nn src 192.168.1.200 and port 25 Pretty sure that command is ok, if I ssh to the NAS and telnet to port 25, the Pi does respond with the 220 Email Relay message, and tcpdump does show traffic…

For what it's worth, I can telnet from the NAS to the mail relay over ssh so it isn't basic connectivity -- which I knew since the Pi writes to the NAS itself, but I wasn't having ideas about anything else to try.

I removed the partitions and now I get the repair option. Thank you both!

Thanks, no -- if we call them NAS "A" and "B": "A" is getting all brand new drives. It had two old drives (to be discarded), and two almost-new drives (to be reused in "B"). "B" has an almost-new drive (to keep), but three old ones I want to upgrade, one by one, repairing after swapping out each one. The two almost-new…