Re: Opinion on high-volume Email server!

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Author: Matt Alexander
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Opinion on high-volume Email server!
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:05:10 -0700, Sanjay Darisi <> wrote:
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> The linux email gateway that I mentioned is mail.xyz.com and it has to relay emails to mail server1, if it goes down it has to relay emails to mail server2. xyz.com has the linux email gateway as the mail server (MX record). How do I configure this to relay emails the way I said.



Create a new DNS entry called foo.xyz.com (no A record is necessary)
and set the MX records for foo to server1 and server2.
Then in the Postfix transport map, do:

xyz.com     smtp:foo.xyz.com


Postfix will check the MX records and deliver according to the set priority.
~M
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