Sergio Mira: > Hello, > > I have an MTA that only sends email from my applications. > I have on this server DKIM, RDNS, etc. > > I send email with SMTP connection.. > Number of emails sent through this MTA increases from day to day. > > I was thinking in implement another server, with same configuration that > this one. > - mail1.example.com > - mail2.example.com > > My question is, how to balance outgoing emails with two (or more) SMTP > servers? > Am I going to need a main server that forward emails to this other SMTP > servers?
First, you have DNS records for each server name: mail1.example.com IN A 1.2.3.4 mail2.example.com IN A 1.2.3.5 Then, you also have DNS records for a generic name: mail.example.com IN A 1.2.3.4 mail.example.com IN A 1.2.3.5 Configure the clients to use mail.example.com. Wietse