Thank Mike. This looks like just what I need to do! On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Mike Cardwell < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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/ > -- ## 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/
