From: Pavel Urban (no email)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2007 - 06:17:44 EST
Wietse Venema wrote:
> Pavel Urban:
>> Hello,
>>
>> is it possible to forward ETRN request? I'm planning to add one or more
>> machines to our backup MX for customers and do DNS balancing. Everything
>> should work fine, except ETRN. Or does anybody use another solution?
>
> Instead of having mail stuck in multiple queues, consider using a
> fallback-relay host for this purpose, and have customers send their
> ETRN commands there.
>
> Internet -> MX1--\
> Internet -> MX2---> fallback-relay --> customers
> Internet -> MX3--/
>
> Wietse
>
That could work fine; the problem is that this system is also used as a
relay FROM customers, with the same DNS name. I wanted to avoid the
situation that all our customers would be supposed to change their
smarthosts...
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