Re: multiple ip addresses for submission -- My Google Fu is lacking

2021-09-14 Thread raf
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 08:24:00AM +0100, Nick Howitt wrote: > On 14/09/2021 04:29, raf wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 01:20:03PM +1000, raf wrote: > > > > > > > But chances are that mail clients just do what any > > other TCP client would do. That might be why you can't > > find an

Re: multiple ip addresses for submission -- My Google Fu is lacking

2021-09-14 Thread Gerald Galster
> when a user clicks "send", the email client has to make some tcp-connection > to some ip address. > what if the hostname configured at the email client resolves to multiple ip > addresses? There are several hops that could randomize ips: - authoritative dns server - dns resolver at your di

Re: multiple ip addresses for submission -- My Google Fu is lacking

2021-09-14 Thread Max-Julian Pogner
If you are only interested in what mail clients do, and can't find any online explanation, you could either look at the source code to some open source ones (probably the easiest way), to me, this feels rather the most troublesome way :-) or set up a mail smarthost with multiple IP address

Re: multiple ip addresses for submission -- My Google Fu is lacking

2021-09-14 Thread Nick Howitt
On 14/09/2021 04:29, raf wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 01:20:03PM +1000, raf wrote: But chances are that mail clients just do what any other TCP client would do. That might be why you can't find any discussion on the topic. Remember, the only IP address(es) that the mail client will be co

Re: multiple ip addresses for submission -- My Google Fu is lacking

2021-09-13 Thread raf
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 01:20:03PM +1000, raf wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 11:07:27AM +0200, Max-Julian Pogner > wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > when a user clicks "send", the email client has to make some tcp-connection > > to some ip address. > > what if the hostname configured at the em

Re: multiple ip addresses for submission -- My Google Fu is lacking

2021-09-13 Thread raf
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 11:07:27AM +0200, Max-Julian Pogner wrote: > Hi there, > > when a user clicks "send", the email client has to make some tcp-connection > to some ip address. > what if the hostname configured at the email client resolves to multiple ip > addresses? > > i actually know th

Re: multiple ip addresses for submission -- My Google Fu is lacking

2021-09-13 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 07:58:26AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > > When a user clicks "send", the email client has to make some > > tcp-connection to some ip address. What if the hostname configured > > at the email client resolves to multiple ip addresses? > > It just seems unlikely that major

Re: multiple ip addresses for submission -- My Google Fu is lacking

2021-09-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Max-Julian Pogner: > Hi there, > > when a user clicks "send", the email client has to make some > tcp-connection to some ip address. > what if the hostname configured at the email client resolves to multiple > ip addresses? It just seems unlikely that major email service providers would run all

Re: multiple ip addresses for submission -- My Google Fu is lacking

2021-09-13 Thread Daniel Ryšlink
I would hazard a guess that the client connects to the first IP from the RRset his cashing DNS resolver gives him (since mail clients AFAIK do not have in-built DNS resolver functionality. How is the resource record set ordered depends on setting on the server, usually (though the DNS client co

Re: Multiple IP addresses binding

2012-12-01 Thread WebprodsPT
On 11/30/2012 01:28 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: WebprodsPT: Hello, I am the administrator of a Postfix setup with multiple domains, multiple IP addresses and SSL configured and up and running. Everything was configured by myself and I have no restrictions on the mail server machine so basically I

Re: Multiple IP addresses binding

2012-11-29 Thread Wietse Venema
WebprodsPT: > Hello, > > I am the administrator of a Postfix setup with multiple domains, > multiple IP addresses and SSL configured and up and running. Everything > was configured by myself and I have no restrictions on the mail server > machine so basically I can do whatever you suggest. > >

Re: Multiple IP

2012-05-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Kirill Bychkov: > Thank you for advice. > > But the more I read the docs, the more I do not understand this feature. > Sorry. > > In my case, postfix-in and postfix-out is one instance. > I already have 2 postfix with identical configuration on separate servers. > I need to create +5 or more post

Re: Multiple IP

2012-05-05 Thread Kirill Bychkov
Thank you for advice. But the more I read the docs, the more I do not understand this feature. Sorry. In my case, postfix-in and postfix-out is one instance. I already have 2 postfix with identical configuration on separate servers. I need to create +5 or more postfix servers with same identical

Re: Multiple IP

2012-05-04 Thread Mikael Bak
On 05/03/2012 07:45 AM, Kirill Bychkov wrote: > Hi all, > > I need create server with 5 IP addresses (interfaces) and postfix(es). > The role of this server is relay. > If message delivered into my mail server on one ip address, for example, > 172.16.35.35, so this message should be sent from same

Re: Multiple IP

2012-05-02 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Kirill Bychkov : > Hi all, > > I need create server with 5 IP addresses (interfaces) and postfix(es). The > role of this server is relay. > If message delivered into my mail server on one ip address, for example, > 172.16.35.35, so this message should be sent from same ip: 172.16.35.35. > In oth

Re: multiple IP addresses/hosts to send/receive email + signed with DKIM+DomainKeys

2008-10-21 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:58:21PM +1100, Barney Desmond wrote: > Oh, it's also meant to be high-performance, something I've done some > testing on but haven't yet completed. Comparisons are only fair if it actually takes the trouble to make mail delivery *reliable* by calling fsync() to commit q

Re: multiple IP addresses/hosts to send/receive email + signed with DKIM+DomainKeys

2008-10-21 Thread Barney Desmond
Erbil KARAMAN: >> actually 'letting MTA figure out how to get it to the internet' is not >> a great approach for high volume senders. I meant just in terms of letting the primary postfix instance figure out which other postfix instance to pass it to. It's a good generalised solution that doesn't

Re: multiple IP addresses/hosts to send/receive email + signed with DKIM+DomainKeys

2008-10-20 Thread Wietse Venema
Erbil KARAMAN: > actually 'letting MTA figure out how to get it to the internet' is not > a great approach for high volume senders. there are lots of parameters > you want to control 'logically' that no MTA out there supports. If you > compare the config options of powerMTA and postfix you will see

Re: multiple IP addresses/hosts to send/receive email + signed with DKIM+DomainKeys

2008-10-20 Thread Erbil KARAMAN
actually 'letting MTA figure out how to get it to the internet' is not a great approach for high volume senders. there are lots of parameters you want to control 'logically' that no MTA out there supports. If you compare the config options of powerMTA and postfix you will see how they differ as a d

Re: multiple IP addresses/hosts to send/receive email + signed with DKIM+DomainKeys

2008-10-20 Thread Barney Desmond
mouss wrote: > use multiple instances: run postfix 8 times, each with its own config > dir, queue dir, data dir, ... etc, and configure each for its own > domain(s). This is something we've run into at work. One customer already uses PowerMTA, and there's another we'd like to discourage. We figur

Re: multiple IP addresses/hosts to send/receive email + signed with DKIM+DomainKeys

2008-10-19 Thread mouss
Erbil KARAMAN a écrit : > hi, > > i have been working on different configuration combinations for hours > but couldn't be able to succeed with anything.. > > here is what i'm trying to do... > i have 8 different IP addresses configured on my linux machine. > > i want them all behave like a virtu