On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, David Markham wrote:
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> I have 2 mail servers which are accessed via dns round robin to share the
> load -ish. I know its not the best way but there you go.
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> As I get a lot of email passing through these servers, and spam as they are
> relays for ISP users, I use a fallback host to try and release some
Hopefully they are only relays for your own customers using your IP
networks, and not for anyone that is connecting on a network you dont
control.
> pressure.
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> I use the fall back in the delivery transport :-
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> remote_smtp:
> driver = smtp
> fallback_hosts = host.domain.com
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> I find though that I still have big queue which build up on my 2 main
> servers. I can see they are passing mail to the fallback, but I thought it
> worked on the first delivery fail it would send to fallback. Is this not the
> case?
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> Plus does anyone know of anyway to speed up or chuck non deliveries or
> anything which doesn't work first time from the main servers to get onto the
> fallback host faster.
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> Cheers
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