How can I use HAProxy as Forward Proxy for PowerMTA?

PowerMTA can use HAProxy as forward proxy to deliver mail using the IP address HAProxy is serving on.

This is not the typical use case of HAProxy because it’s not load balancing, it is connecting THROUGH haproxy to use the IP address that HAProxy is on. They wrote an article about this here:

I’ve googled and not found much. The one article I did find is like the opposite of what I want:

They say to use the following:

frontend ft_smtp
      bind 12.34.56.78:25
      mode tcp
      timeout client 1m
      log global
      option tcplog
      default_backend bk_smtp

backend bk_smtp
      mode tcp
      log global
      option tcplog
      timeout server 1m
      timeout connect 7s
      server postfix 10.10.10.101:2525 send-proxy

I am wanting to connect to HAProxy on port 2525, and have it act as a proxy to connecting to smtp servers, i.e. test@gmail.com.

I am not sure if I explained this well enough, if not please let me know. Any help would be much appreciated as I can not find much online.

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