Evolution send mail though proxy setting, how to? -- 2.26.1 still doesn't work!

[Christopher Chan]

>> Sorry, that does not make sense. The smarthost is defined by the email
>> client and the request for a connection to the smarthost is done by the
>> email client. The proxy makes no decision on that. If it does not have
>> smtp smarts, it knows nothing. Nice try passing off 'my own proxy' as an
>> answer.
>>     
>
> My email client knows where it should send mail.  When I'm at home, that's 
> where it goes.  When I'm at the client's, it gets routed through an ssh 
> tunnel or through the client's SMTP server.  The proxy _did_ make a decision 
> on that, so you can tell me it makes no sense all you want, but it works, 
> it's fundamentally proper SMTP and the proxy needs to know nothing about 
> SMTP.  It needs to recognize _one_ header (the first), but that doesn't mean 
> it has "smtp smarts".
>
>   
I perceive that you are talking about a SMTP proxy and not a blinking 
http proxy server being repurposed. It appears we have been arguing 
about different things without being sufficiently clear. So all in all, 
I believe we actually agree but our disagreements have come about 
because of words that have a broad meaning when we actually had 
something quite specific in mind.

>> I am sorry, but the mail admins on spam-l including those who run the
>> servers for outfits like Roadrunner, AOL, name-your-US-isp will disagree
>> with you and some even have systems that run probes to on connecting
>> hosts to check for non MTA software and you can guess what they do with
>> the results.
>>     
>
> I know what they do - and any mail you get from me would come through gmail 
> (also my mx) so it's not a problem.
>   

smtp.gmail.com != gmail.com mx. But then there are those who do not 
separate their incoming and outgoing delivery so this is just a minor 
nitpick.