Yes and no, well actually just yes but one option is easy the other is
not. If you are talking about desktop clients where you manually can
enter a hostname to use as SMTP server then it is easy. If you on the
other hand mean to loadbalance your MX records that will be a bit
tricky (or atleast expensive).
Anyhow, to loadbalance yuor desktop clients all you need to do is setup
DNS roundrobin for the SMTP host. DNS roundrobin is not perfect but
will suffice for the most of us.
MX records rarely need loadbalancing since you have the prefference
setting in the MX record itself. If the most preffered server is "full"
the sending host will simply pick the MX record with the second best
prefference and so on. However if you really want _real_ loadbalancing
I would recommend thirdparty software or hardware.
/Martin
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:33:01AM +0300, Andrew Wafula mumbled:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way one can do load balancing with qmail, i.e I have two
> machines both with qmail set up and running. Is there a way that I can have
> them both serving as smtp servers without the clients knowing which machine
> is sending the ail for them?
>
> Andrew
>
