On 03/10/2011 09:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Frank Bonnet put forth on 3/10/2011 9:55 AM: >> Hello >> >> Is it possible to configure postfix to use some round-robin >> mechanisms to send emails with several SMTP servers ? >> >> I mean to SEND emails to the external world, not to receive. > > I touched on this recently but in a different context, that being > multiple postfix instances on one box all used as an outbound relay > farm. You wan to use round robin DNS for this. > > What you want to accomplish is very simple. Create a DNS CNAME entry of > something like relay-farm.your-domain.tld and point it to something like > tractor.your-domain.tld. Then create an A record for each SMTP relay > box's IP, with all of these A records having the name > tractor.your-domain.tld. This should enable round robin DNS. Now, > simply add this to main.cf: > > relayhost = relay-farm.your-domain.tld > > I think this is right. If not it's darn close. >
Thanks a Stan gonna try this -- Frank BONNET 01.45.92.66.17 Service des Moyens Informatiques Generaux ESIEE PARIS Cité Descartes / BP 99 93162 NOISY-LE-GRAND Cedex http://www.esiee.fr <http://www.esiee.fr/>
