MailScanner/sendmail load balancing

[Daniel Maher]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Vlad Mazek
> Sent: November 10, 2006 10:57 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: MailScanner/sendmail load balancing
> 
> Does anybody use Linux Virtual Server with MailScanner/sendmail?
> Any recommendations / pitfalls?
> If not, do you recommend / use something else to spread the load across
> multiple MailScanner servers?
> 

In our environment, we have a small cluster of incoming mail servers, each running Postfix & MailScanner.  We balance these via DNS, in the same way that Google, Yahoo, and many other email players do: our MX points to a single hostname (mail01), which in turn has A-records for each of the machines in the cluster.

ubisoft.com.            300     IN      MX      10 mail01.ubisoft.com.
;;
mail01.ubisoft.com.     3600    IN      A       216.98.56.133
mail01.ubisoft.com.     3600    IN      A       216.98.56.138
mail01.ubisoft.com.     3600    IN      A       216.98.56.132

Done and done - it works like a charm, and it is fantastically easy to set up and maintain.

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