[Spambayes] SMTP proxy

[Tim@mail.powweb.com]

Brad, I've sent the code to Richie, as I don't have checkin privileges (sp?) on the Spambayes project.  Gosh, you guys have got me all worried about 
spelling...

To answer your question, yes it passes mail through right now, but there is some configuration related work that really needs to be done before I'd consider it 
to be ready for primetime.  When you run the proxy, you tell it what port to listen on and give it a dns ip address.  Normal outgoing mail is processed by doing 
a dns lookup on the domain in the to: address, grabbing the smtp server name from the dns lookup return (a bit of a mystery to me) and connecting to that 
server.  This is kinda not right imo.  I think that the outgoing smtp server name should be specifiable as a startup option, as should the port to send on.  That 
way, you can specify localhost:<port> if you have another proxy running, which will allow you to chain them.  In my instance, this is exactly what I have at the 
moment.  So... that'll be coming, soon I hope...

- TimS

11/2/2002 6:31:59 PM, "Brad Morgan" <B-Morgan@concentric.net> wrote:

>Tim,
>
>Please submit the SMTP proxy to the project.  I think this is a good
>interface for training.  I'm also following the popfile Sourceforge project
>and they have a useable interface using HTML (on an alternate port) which is
>a reasonable alternative.
>
>I do have a question on the SMTP proxy.  Can it be configured to pass
>everything it doesn't capture on the the "normal" proxy (where "normal" is
>specified somehow)?  If not, how would it be configured in say, Outlook?
>
>Keep up the good work!
>
>Regards,
>
>Brad
>
>
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- Tim
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