> On 2.Aug. 2017, at 14:09, Gilles Chehade <gil...@poolp.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 01:47:09PM +0200, Kirill Miazine wrote: >> * Eric Faurot [2017-08-02 13:24]: >>> On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 11:44:47AM +0200, Christian Gut wrote: >>>> Hi List, >>>> >>>> is it possible to have multiple relays (you might want to say smart hosts) >>>> in smtpd? >>>> >>>> I currently use the following line: >>>> >>>> accept from local for any relay via smarthost.example.org >>>> <http://smarthost.example.org/> >>>> >>>> Now I would like to have multiple smart hosts in there for backup reasons, >>>> if one of the smart hosts is in maintainance. Is something like this >>>> possible? >>>> >>>> accept from local for any relay via { smarthost1.example.org >>>> <http://smarthost1.example.org/>, smarthost2.example.org >>>> <http://smarthost2.example.org/> } >>>> >>>> Kind Regards, >>>> Christian >>>> >>> It's not possible at the moment. There is ongoing work to support this >>> feature, >>> along with other improvements. But it's quite a big change, and we can't >>> give an >>> ETA right now. >> >> what about defining a new name in DNS containing addresses of all >> smarthosts as a workaround for the OP for now? >> > > This can work in some use-cases, this is exactly what a co-worker did to > work around the limitation.
How will smtpd operate then? Does it use the DNS records in a round robin fashion or does it try them one after another if they fail? Christian
