feature on my Plesk server, the SMTP AUTH tests always fail. But I know authentication works, so whats wrong?
Plesk uses a program called relaylock to provide some of the features spamdyke includes. One of relaylock’s jobs is to offer (and probably process) SMTP AUTH. However, relaylock won’t offer SMTP AUTH to connections that come from the local host. It uses the TCPREMOTEIP environment variable to determine the IP address of the connecting server. Try setting it to something other than the localhost IP. Within the bash shell, you can use this command: export TCPREMOTEIP=11.22.33.44 Within the zsh shell, this command will work: setenv TCPREMOTEIP 11.22.33.44 If the TCPREMOTEIP environment variable isn’t set at all, spamdyke should set it to 0.0.0.0 before it starts its tests.
