We just run postfix and amavisd-new on all our servers, and those sit behind 
haproxy. 



> On Oct 30, 2014, at 11:53 AM, Kent Oyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> I don't know if amavis supports the PROXY protocol but I kinda doubt it. I've 
> solved the problem by putting haproxy in between postfix and amavis like this
> 
> --> Postfix (ingress) --> haproxy --> amavisd --> Postfix (egress) -->
> 
> The ingress Postfix server does all the SPF and RBL checks. Then it sends the 
> messages to haproxy which divides the load between several amavis servers to 
> do the heavy lifting. You should add the IP address of the haproxy server to 
> the trusted_networks list in Spamassassin. In my case, I'm running haproxy on 
> the same machine as the ingress Postfix server. So I have 2 Postfix/haproxy 
> servers and 6 amavisd servers followed by 2 Postfix egress servers. It been 
> working great so far.
> 
> Thanks
> Kent
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Sommer [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 8:42 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Proxy protocol support
> 
> Hi
> 
> Does amavis support the PROXY protocol?
> http://www.haproxy.org/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt
> 
> I want to create an amavis cluster with a load-balancer in front of all the 
> nodes, I was thinking haproxy.
> I need the source IP in amavis to be the mailserver and not the load balancer 
> (to support forward_method=*), the PROXY protocol seem to fix this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> Tom Sommer
> 
> 

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