Hello,
> You are right, of course. :-)
>
> But where is the situation that one gateway can no longer do all
> the outgoing communication? I believe that you need to have a
> faster connection before you need more than one computer to do
> the work. One (powerful) computer can produce traffic for a 34 Mb
> line. Am i not right?
>
> We talked about "one gateway", not that IMail does all the
> outgoing traffic.
There are a few situations where this setup makes sense:
1) If you want to spread the load over a couple of servers
that are not dedicated to SMTP. (e.g. a farm of webservers)
The SMTP of Win2K is very stable so you can spread the load
onto 5 or 10 different web servers without overloading one
of them.
2) If you make outgoing mail redundant. (If one gateway fails
IMail will probably try to reach the other one)
3) If you have a few small servers (P100 or similar) that you
want to use for SMTP relaying.
bye
Markus Oestreicher
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