Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread perryh
i have 3 different links to ISP all are ADSL's so outgoing bandwidth is low, i would like to spread the load generated by outgoing mails. Pardon my lack of imagination, but how could anyone -- other than a spammer -- be generating enough outbound email traffic to *need* to load-balance it, and

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
by outgoing mails. Pardon my lack of imagination, but how could anyone -- other than a spammer -- be generating enough outbound email traffic to *need* to load-balance it, and yet have little enough please come to poland and use polish telecom's 4Mbit/s ADSL connections. you won't ask why.

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Pardon my lack of imagination, but how could anyone -- other than a spammer -- be generating enough outbound email traffic to *need* to load-balance it, and yet have little enough total Internet traffic to be using DSL rather than something oriented to commercial use (like a T1)? the reason is

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no i'm not a spammer, but my users often send mails like 20-40MB sized. [..] something like T1 here costs far too much to dedicate it just for mails. for the same price i can get four 4Mbit/s ADSL's (which i have now), that

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
something like T1 here costs far too much to dedicate it just for mails. for the same price i can get four 4Mbit/s ADSL's (which i have now), that actually gives 4Mbit/s download speed, but only 512kbps upload. Lucky you. We have a 1500/256kbps link for up to 20 boxes, though there's talk

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread Al Plant
Wojciech Puchar wrote: by outgoing mails. Pardon my lack of imagination, but how could anyone -- other than a spammer -- be generating enough outbound email traffic to *need* to load-balance it, and yet have little enough please come to poland and use polish telecom's 4Mbit/s ADSL

sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is it possible to make sendmail choose it's outgoing IP when sending mail from list of four in random or round-robin way? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-14 Thread Sahil Tandon
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to make sendmail choose it's outgoing IP when sending mail from list of four in random or round-robin way? What problem are you trying to solve? And this really is a question for the sendmail mailing list. :-) -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: is it possible to make sendmail choose it's outgoing IP when sending mail from list of four in random or round-robin way? Not easily. sendmail(8) defaults to binding to all IPs on the machine (INADDR_ANY) and the IP it will use to send with will just be whatever would

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
from list of four in random or round-robin way? What problem are you trying to solve? And this really is a question for the i have 3 different links to ISP all are ADSL's so outgoing bandwidth is low, i would like to spread the load generated by outgoing mails.

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What could you do? Run four instances of sendmail in different jails as outgoing mail relays, each bound to a different IP. Supposing your that's what i was thinking about, but believed there is smarted method. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org