Chump Chumpster wrote: > I wonder if this might be possible with Exim? > > When we send out a newsletter to our subscribers, it tends to slow down our > regular email from clients on our domain. I have other stand alone servers I > could use as MTAs to share the burden when there's a spike in demand. Due to > the constraints of our newsletter software and other infrastructure, what > I'd like to do is this: > > Is it possible to have one Exim be the single MTA that the newsletter > software talks to and have this server then act as a 'load balancer' or at > least a 'round robin', by relaying to 3 other servers that do the actual > delivery? > > I'd appreciate if anyone knows if this is possible. > > thanks.... > > PS. I really do need to do it this way if possible, due to some other > constraints.
Use a manualroute router as described on http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch20.html Use the hosts_randomize option to spread the load across the three servers. -- Mike Cardwell (https://secure.grepular.com/) (http://perlcv.com/) -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
