Author: Niels Kobschätzki Date: To: Peter Wullinger CC: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] randomize spamscanning- and av-IPs?
On 19 May 2021, at 14:26, Peter Wullinger wrote:
> On 19.05.21 09:14, Niels Kobschätzki via Exim-users wrote:
>> But is there a way to randomize how the spam-servers are tried? I have one machine that has always a very high load and the other machines are a bit bored. I could configure another order for each of my mail-servers by hand, but if there would be built-in randomization it would make things easier.
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> According to the documentation, random selection is supposedly what should happen, here.
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> Exim should randomly select one of the non-failed servers within the highest priority set (and fall back to the lower priority servers only if all the higher priority servers have failed).
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> And at least with equal weights, the algorithm in the code should actually do that.
Thanks. I just reread the documentation and found it now. Interesting because I have several machines for spam-scanning which are specd the same and one is constantly under higher load than the other and that is the host that is the first one in the list.
