University MailScanner Setup

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Fri Dec 11 18:55:10 GMT 2009


On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Gottschalk, David <dgottsc at emory.edu> wrote:
> Then we would just have a bunch of MailScanner machines fronted by a load balancer to handle all inbound email (I'd imagine we need more than six after doing so)

I doubt you need to spend money/time on a dedicated load balancer.
Just setting up all your MailScanner servers as MX hosts in your DNS
should do the trick for free. Load balancing via round robin from DNS
and failover from SMTP automatically picking the next MX if one is not
available.

-- 
/peter


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