Re: [exim] randomize spamscanning- and av-IPs?

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Author: Niels Kobschätzki
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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.

Best,

Niels