OT: Preferred MTA?

[Pentland G.]

Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> Glenn Steen a écrit :
>> On 13/10/06, Drew Marshall <drew at technologytiger.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Do you recommend using a HW load balancer (and SSL accelerator) in
>>>> front of my servers?  How about Cisco's?
>>> 
>>> Really can't comment but I would be interested to hear others
>>> thoughts too. 
>>> 
>> Capable but not that cheap:-).
>> How do you loadbalance now?
>> 
> Using DNS round-robin... :-(

Why? What for?

MX records (if you have more than at the same priority) will load balance anyway, I guess it is sort of a round robin.

You could deliberately have one at a lower priority, that would tend to attract spam and hence genuine mail would be on slightly less loaded servers.

Gary