Does your proprietary SMTP server allow you to specify a trusted host? If so, that would be the key.
Also, it's not a mail proxy but rather a mail relay. World ---> SMTP Relay ---> SMTP Final Destination. As for the proprietary SMTP server can you give us a little more information on it? Gary -----Original Message----- From: Stefano Costantini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 6:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Smtp authentication my problem is kind of different. You're describing a normal situation, where spamassassin is coupled with an "normal" MTA. The one I'm using is proprietary... so I can't just add SA. I need to use a proxy smtp. So my network looks like this: World--->smtp proxy with SA---->smtp server Let's call smtp proxy--->smtp P (roxy) and the real server---> smtp S (erver) My smtp S uses smtp authentication to stop unathorized relay and I'd like to keep things this way obviously. But people -since I deployed smtp P with SA- are now connecting to smtp P and not to the real server S, so they don't get auth request when sending their email (first problem). After that, when email is passed to the server S for delivering... it's not sent because S asks for auth!!! Ste
