University MailScanner Setup

[Monis Monther]

Can you please also add how you monitor, and if anyone posts a solution
please add the monitoring solution with it, Thanks

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Rose, Bobby <brose at med.wayne.edu> wrote:

> We have two boxes (somewhat similar hardware) using LVS (with Piranha as
> GUI) for the load balancing of smtp.  Our message counts are around 90-110
> thousand.
>
> Bobby Rose
> Wayne State University School of Medicine
>
> -=B
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> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 1:55 PM
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> Subject: Re: University MailScanner Setup
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> 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.
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