Ah, now that's what I do...
My primary Witango 2000/Windows 2000/IIS5 box runs the MS SMTP service. The SMTP service is set to route all mail that arrives at it on to our ISPs SmartHost. For security purposes, the SMTP service is only bound to the localhost adapter on the server, so it can't be used as an open relay. Witango delivers all its mail to that server, which in turn forwards it on. Witango doesn't have to worry about connections to the SmartHost (which could potentially go away), as the SMTP service will handle queuing and delivering the messages. I have to keep an eye on the Event Log, because it is possible for outbound mail to get stuck - for example, if the domain is invalid - but generally it ticks along nicely... Jon -----Original Message----- From: Gutman, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 May 2002 2:31 To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Multiple SMTP server I thought about that, but the problem is unintentional outages. The systems people take care that the SMTP is always live, except for those random problems that seem to creep up from time to time. The only thing I can think of then is to run local SMTP servers on each of my Tango servers. That way they can hold the mail until it can either deliver it to out primary SMTP server or out to the internet. Larry Gutman -----Original Message----- From: Jon Grieve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:23 AM To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Multiple SMTP server Ah... that I don't think you can do. When you say redundant, do you mean to handle When Mail Servers Die (starring Sheriff John Brunell ;), or rather that you want to be able to knowingly turn them on and off without having to reconfigure Witango? What I'm getting at is, you could mangle DNS so that Witango always finds a server because you know to change DNS to 'avoid' the server you're just about to unplug... Jon -----Original Message----- From: Gutman, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 May 2002 2:11 To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Multiple SMTP server Yes. I want it to be redundant. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Grieve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Multiple SMTP server Larry, It appears (I haven't tried to do this) that you can specify a different mail server on at least a Witango Application basis. I suspect you can probably do this on a per-Domain basis too -- probably by manually adding domains to "domains.ini". Is that what you mean, or more of a safety net (i.e. try Server A, then B if A is not available, etc.)? Jon -----Original Message----- From: Gutman, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 May 2002 1:52 To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: Witango-Talk: Multiple SMTP server Can I have more the one SMTP server defined in my tango configurations? If so what is the format. Thanks Larry Gutman ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
