On Nov 18, 2009, at 09:22, Dhiraj Chatpar wrote: > We have 5 different servers.. all of them are mailing servers for our main > company domain, I wish to Balance the mails across these 5 servers. > > > Ogden Nash - "The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's > always a cat." > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 19:34, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > Dhiraj Chatpar: > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a solution where i would be able to configure one postfix > > instance in such a way that it rotates multiple relayhosts and acts as a > > host that relays emails to multiple hosts. For eg. we currently have the > > option of entering just one relayhost = xx.xx.xx.xx. However i need a > > solution where i shuld be able to map multiple relayhosts and make postfix > > relay via those list of hosts. > > What problem are you trying to solve? State the problem, not > the solution of multiple relayhosts and ports. > > Wietse >
Dhiraj, If you wish to balance the load across a number of servers, then you need a load balancer. If you can't afford one of those or do not wish to employ one of those, the poor man's way to do basic load balancing is to use round-robin DNS, as was already mentioned. Daniel
