I cast my vote: yeah Gary V Matt wrote:
> Hi all, > OK, I think I've made a final decision on what I'd like to do. > I think I'm going to setup two of the 1U boxes we have (the 3.06 ghz > machines with IDE drives). I'm going to call one "relay1" and one "relay2". > I'm going to setup MX records for the 500+ domains we have. Half of them > will have relay1 as their primary and half of them will have relay2 as > their primary. The remaining server will be set as secondary MX. > These two 1U boxes will be IDENTICAL and have support for ALL domains. > Upon processing of spam and antivirus, each box will then relay the mail > directly to the mail server. All the mail server will do is receive the > processed emails and deliver them. > The reason I decided this is for a few reasons: > 1) Tonight I upgraded nss_ldap on the mail server and I messed some > stuff up bad (it worked on the testing box, btw). It took me 20 minutes > to fix it. > 2) Mail processing is easy. Spam and antivirus processing is a bit more > complicated process. Since I'll have two boxes doing the processing, I > can easily take one of the boxes down if something goes wrong (IE, I can > take relay1 down at anytime, and relay2 will still function for all mail > because of backup MX records). > 3) It takes the load off the mail server and "uncomplicates" things. If > something on the mail server breaks, I'll have to figure out whether its > the LDA, MTA, amavisd, spamd, or antivirus, or even LDAP. Now, I divide > it up a bit to make things easier. > Please let me know what all of you think about this final idea. In the > end it leaves me with a three server setup but at least things will be a > bit more spread out, and I'll have nice backup processing servers. > Regards, > Matt ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
