Re: Mailserver requirements

[Jeff Workman <jworkman () pimpworks org>]

--On Monday, April 05, 2004 5:48 PM -0400 Richard Welty 
<rwelty () averillpark net> wrote:

> for that matter, if i were running a very very large mail farm with high
> volume in one or both directions, separating the inbound mail handlers
> (MX hosts) from the outbound mail relays would be something that i'd
> seriously consider doing as part of the architecture. this would interact
> very badly with the mail rejection strategy outlined in the original post
> in this thread.

While I think it's pretty anal-retentive to require a mail sender to have a 
valid MX record, I don't see what would be so hard about setting up MX 
records for this scenario:

inbound-mx01    IN A            192.168.1.98
inbound-mx02    IN A            192.168.1.99
outbound-01             IN A            192.168.1.100
                        IN MX 10        inbound-mx01
                        IN MX 20        inbound-mx02

Or am I missing something?

-J

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