On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Mike wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could tell me how to send mail to one
> outgoing RehHat server, and make that server round robbin to 10 other
> smtp servers? I mail about 250,000 emails a night, and the subscriber
> base is expected to grow 50 fold over the next 6 months and I am
> trying to gear up for it. I just want to send 1 email to one server
> somehow have it grab the list off of a SQL database on the same
> server, and distribute it to the other 10 as load-balanced as possible
> for delivery. Any suggestions. I have like 70 different ideas on the
> whole project, but cannot think of a way to accomplish this paticular
> task.
Add an entry on the RedHat server to smtproutes, that points to an
internal DNS record.
Then, initialize your DNS server and put 10 A records for this hostname.
Each individual message will then be sent to a randomly chosen IP address,
one out of 10, balancing the load.
