Authentication_to_Smarthost

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Uhm... so both ASSP and Exchange are sitting on the same box; fine; in such a case and since it's a Windows setup here is my suggestion; fire up the "install new hardware" on the box select "network card" and then "Microsoft" at that point, pick the "Microsoft LoopBack Adapter" and install it; once the setup will complete, go to the network settings, select the new "adapter" (it's a virtual NIC, just working locally) and assign it a private IP sitting on a different subnet, for example 172.25.10.10; next pick this program http://www.mailenable.com/standard_edition.asp install it and disable ALL protocols except SMTP then set up the SMTP server to listen on 172.25.10.10:225 at this point go to the ASSP GUI and insert 172.25.10.10:25 in "relayport" then setup 172.25.10.10:225 as the relayhost; done this just setup your exchange to forward all outgoing email to 172.25.10.10:25 and you'll be up and running; with this setup the outgoing mail flow will be as follows

exchange -> 127.25.10.10:25 (assp) -> 127.25.10.10:225 (mailenable)

then the mailenable SMTP will enquene the email and route it to its destination; that's more or less all, although I still prefer keeping ASSP along with a DNS resolver and an SMTP daemon on a separate box; that eases things quite a lot (notice that the "separate box" may even be a virtual m