OT: Preferred MTA?

[Denis Beauchemin]

Pentland G. a écrit :
> 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
>
>
>   
That's the MX trick I was referring to as round-robin.  I had 3 servers 
at same priority.  Turns out that we got so much spam attacks in the 
last few days, that I decided to turn one to a lower priority so it 
would attract spammers.  Hope this works does the trick.

Denis

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