Re: [exim] same domain router to different servers

Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:38:04AM -0600, JupiterHost.Net said:
>
>>JupiterHost.Net wrote:
>>
>>>Hello group,
>>>
>>>In the interest of "spreading" the wealth I was wondering if this is
>>>possible:
>>>
>>>Could you have 2 (or more) exim servers that handle mail for the smae
>>>domain *AND* each one handles certain accounts?
>>>
>>>For instance:
>>>
>>>foo.com
>>>
>>>server 1:
>>>user1@???
>>>user2@???
>>>
>>>server 2:
>>>fred@???
>>>joe@???
>>>
>>>When mail is sent to fred@??? it goes to server 2 and if server 1
>>>receives it, it will forward it to server 1 for handling?
>>
>>Wow let me try that again :)
>>
>>When mail is sent to fred@??? it will go to server 2.
>>If server 1 by chance gets it then it will forward it to server 2 for
>>handling.
>>
>>There hope thats easier to understand ;p
>
>
> It sounds good, except that you're not really lightening the load in
> this case - both servers will still process everybody's mail, and still
> deliver it, just not to their mailbox, necessarily.

Yeah, I was looking for a disk space saver idea ;p but you're right the
load would not be less necessarily...

> If you're looking to lighten the load for tasks like pop/imap, move the
> deliveries to one of several back end machines that only receive the
> email and deliver to mailboxes. You can use LDAP+perdition to scale
> decisions about which machine the mail for an individual user goes to in
> order to scale the backend, if need be.

Yes that is what I'm looking for ;p

So there's no way to make exim look at the recipient and fire it off to
another server?