Re: Larning about relays

2012-06-29 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2012-06-28 email builder wrote: Do not accept mail that you know you can't deliver. Either use $relay_recipient_maps (building the list and pushing it to the frontend server can be implemented with a simple script), use LDAP lookups (in case your recipients are listed in an LDAP directory),

Re: Larning about relays

2012-06-29 Thread email builder
Thanks for the help everyone.  Does anyone have experience or comments about this: The only other solution I can see is to use something like Nginx to just proxy the SMTP conversation through the relay to the internal MTA.  I haven't tried this before, but if Nginx can perform fast enough

Re: Larning about relays

2012-06-29 Thread Wietse Venema
email builder: Thanks for the help everyone.? Does anyone have experience or comments about this: The only other solution I can see is to use something like Nginx to just proxy the SMTP conversation through the relay to the internal MTA.? I haven't tried this before, but if Nginx can

Re: Larning about relays

2012-06-28 Thread email builder
Specific questions I had were if I can use the standard DNS load balancing (multiple MX records, same priority, possibly multiple IPs resolving to one A record) setup *behind* a relay server (those MTAs behind the relay only being available via the relay and never directly). Well, it looks

Re: Larning about relays

2012-06-28 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2012-06-28 email builder wrote: Specific questions I had were if I can use the standard DNS load balancing (multiple MX records, same priority, possibly multiple IPs resolving to one A record) setup *behind* a relay server (those MTAs behind the relay only being available via the relay and

Re: Larning about relays

2012-06-28 Thread email builder
Specific questions I had were if I can use the standard DNS load balancing (multiple MX records, same priority, possibly multiple IPs resolving to one A record) setup *behind* a relay server (those MTAs behind the relay only being available via the relay and never directly).

Re: Larning about relays

2012-06-28 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2012-06-28 email builder wrote: Well, it looks like I could do relay_domains = example.com transport table: example.com   relay:other.com I have to use other.com in the transport because I need to use DNS-based load balancing of multiple SMTP servers on the backend, but the relay is

Re: Larning about relays

2012-06-28 Thread email builder
Ansgar, thank you for your patience: Well, it looks like I could do relay_domains = example.com transport table: example.com   relay:other.com I have to use other.com in the transport because I need to use DNS-based load balancing of multiple SMTP servers on the backend,

Re: Larning about relays

2012-06-28 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 07:30:02PM -0700, email builder wrote: example.com relay:internal.smtp.example.com * mail for example.com arrives at the relay because it is the highest priority MX record for example.com Yes, but don't use the word relay here, it is too easily confused with the

Re: Larning about relays

2012-06-28 Thread email builder
* mail for example.com arrives at the relay because it is the highest priority MX record for example.com Yes, but don't use the word relay here, it is too easily confused with the transport name, calle it the border MTA or the SMTP gateway, OK thanks for the language tips * the

Larning about relays

2012-06-27 Thread email builder
Hi everyone, I haven't played with relay servers much. I really thought there was a RELAY_README but I find no README files with RELAY in them at all.  Hmmm.  Where can I get the basics? Specific questions I had were if I can use the standard DNS load balancing (multiple MX records, same