On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 01:47:09PM +0200, Kirill Miazine wrote:
> * Eric Faurot [2017-08-02 13:24]:
> > On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 11:44:47AM +0200, Christian Gut wrote:
> >> Hi List,
> >>
> >> is it possible to have multiple relays (you might want to say smart hosts) 
> >> in smtpd?
> >>
> >> I currently use the following line:
> >>
> >> accept from local for any relay via smarthost.example.org 
> >> <http://smarthost.example.org/>
> >>
> >> Now I would like to have multiple smart hosts in there for backup reasons, 
> >> if one of the smart hosts is in maintainance. Is something like this 
> >> possible?
> >>
> >> accept from local for any relay via { smarthost1.example.org 
> >> <http://smarthost1.example.org/>, smarthost2.example.org 
> >> <http://smarthost2.example.org/> }
> >>
> >> Kind Regards,
> >> Christian
> >>
> > It's not possible at the moment.  There is ongoing work to support this 
> > feature,
> > along with other improvements. But it's quite a big change, and we can't 
> > give an
> > ETA right now.
> 
> what about defining a new name in DNS containing addresses of all
> smarthosts as a workaround for the OP for now?
> 

This can work in some use-cases, this is exactly what a co-worker did to
work around the limitation.


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Gilles Chehade

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