Len,
Tis I that was doing the complaining and Robert Stull at IPSwitch doing or
arranging the fixes at IPSwitch.
As for the delivery to the gateway, They (ipswitch) did add a band-aid fix
to speed up delivery. Basically, the gdeliver will still only send out a
maximum of five messages per connection - but instead of waiting for the
queue timer and trying again, imail simply disconnects and reconnects, and
sends five more. It's not the best fix but definitely acceptable for now.
Hopefully 7.0 will give us multiple gateways, separate queue times for
gdelivers, alternating deliveries to multiple gateways, etc...
fyi - Currently, Imail does not do a DNS lookup on the gateway hostname,
Once it learns the IP, that's it until you restart the service.
-----Original Message-----
From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Load balancing
>
>>Recently, here inthe forum, someone reported using the SMTP Gateway field,
>>with a hostname, that used round-robin DNS, and multiple IPs and SMTP
>>servers, for sending. Apparently this did work.
>
>whoa, important function, Daniel, and I missed it. There are several
>largish IMGate users who would like to use multipe ip's in the SMTP
>Gateway field. support@ never gave me a confirmation, months ago, if
>that worked, but I know there was some work in the that area in 6.05
>to speed up deliveries to a single gateway machine.
>
>Do you remember who it was? I'd like to chat with them.
>
>Len
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