O'Yang Kai writes:
> I'm trying to increase the robustness of our qmail environment by setting up
> multiple default routes in control/smtproutes such as:
> ...
> :hub1.company.com
> :hub2.company.com
>
> The problem is that the emails will only route to hub1 and never to hub2.
> Before I try to implement round robin DNS or lbnamed, is there any way to
> set up in qmail so that it will automatically fall over to hub2 if hub1
> fails, or do a random choice between hub1/2?
Well yeah; using MX records. If you need private MX records, you
should be using split DNS. smtproutes is really only for overriding
somebody *else*'s DNS.
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