Greetings. Long time lurker here. I have an application that kicks off mail every hour. I notice that when it does this, my email server CPU hits 100% for about 10 minutes while the email is spooled and sent out.
What I would like to do is have a 2nd Imail server set up to only send email. It would not have any incoming email on it at all. It would just send email for my application. My primary Imail server uses the ODBC database and has all of the mailboxes on it. Lets say the primary email server also holds the domain mail.abc.com for which we have users checking pop3 email. My idea is on the 2nd (send only) email server to shut down everything except SMTPD and Queue Manager. I'd set up a mail2.abc.com domain. I'd point my application to this new mail server. Now, I'm concerned that if the 2nd email server has an MX record that incomming email for abc.com might get routed to the 2nd (send only) server. I don't ever want it handling any incomming email. But if I don't set up an MX record, then I risk other email servers rejecting the email I'm sending out. Any thoughts or recommendations on how I should set this up? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
