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Re: round-robin sending SMTP server ?
From: <lst_hoe02_at_nospam>Date: Fri Mar 11 2011 - 10:03:52 GMT
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Zitat von Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>:
> On 03/11/2011 09:51 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>> On 03/10/2011 09:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> Frank Bonnet put forth on 3/10/2011 9:55 AM:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to configure postfix to use some round-robin
>>>> mechanisms to send emails with several SMTP servers ?
>>>>
>>>> I mean to SEND emails to the external world, not to receive.
>>>
>>> I touched on this recently but in a different context, that being
>>> multiple postfix instances on one box all used as an outbound relay
>>> farm. You wan to use round robin DNS for this.
>>>
>>> What you want to accomplish is very simple. Create a DNS CNAME entry of
>>> something like relay-farm.your-domain.tld and point it to something like
>>> tractor.your-domain.tld. Then create an A record for each SMTP relay
>>> box's IP, with all of these A records having the name
>>> tractor.your-domain.tld. This should enable round robin DNS. Now,
>>> simply add this to main.cf:
>>>
>>> relayhost = relay-farm.your-domain.tld
>>>
>>> I think this is right. If not it's darn close.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks a Stan gonna try this
>>
>>
>
> Thanks ! it works fine :-)
Would be better with "relayhost = [relay-farm.your-domain.tld]", no?
Regards
Andreas