Thanks to all who responded. I think the least disruptive thing to do is to add one or more SMTP IDs all listening on port 25 and dealing with incoming and outgoing mail needing no updates to the desktop mail clients.
Hopefully this will address some of the timeouts we are seeing on PC mail clients during heavy SMTP busy times. Thanks. On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:06:37 -0600 Alan Ackerman said: >On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:05:28 -0500, Aria Bamdad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Is anyone running multiple VM SMTP servers to address problems with >>mail agents getting timeouts because VM SMTP is busy? >> >>I was planning on adding one more SMTP server listening at the same port >. >>Is there a way to dedicate one server to incoming mail and another for >>outgoing? >> >>Thanks. >> > > > > >We run two SMTP servers on each VM system. The inbound one is called ISMT >P and it listens on >port 25. Nothing special about it. The outbound one is called SMTP, it li >stens on port 8025, but >never gets any incoming mail. It uses IPMAILER ALL to send all outgoing m >ail to our cMTA >(Corporate Mail Transfer Agent). > >I have two so that ISMTP can access DNS while SMTP does NOT. Details a wh >ile back on this list. I >didn't do this for performance, but I don't see why you could not have IS >MPT1,2,3,... all listening >on port 25.
