Re: [AMaViS-user] FINAL DECISION: Will our machine handle it?

I cast my vote: yeah
Gary V

Matt wrote:

> Hi all,

> OK, I think I've made a final decision on what I'd like to do.

> I think I'm going to setup two of the 1U boxes we have (the 3.06 ghz
> machines with IDE drives). I'm going to call one "relay1" and one "relay2".

> I'm going to setup MX records for the 500+ domains we have. Half of them
> will have relay1 as their primary and half of them will have relay2 as
> their primary. The remaining server will be set as secondary MX.

> These two 1U boxes will be IDENTICAL and have support for ALL domains.
> Upon processing of spam and antivirus, each box will then relay the mail
> directly to the mail server. All the mail server will do is receive the
> processed emails and deliver them.

> The reason I decided this is for a few reasons:

> 1) Tonight I upgraded nss_ldap on the mail server and I messed some
> stuff up bad (it worked on the testing box, btw). It took me 20 minutes
> to fix it.

> 2) Mail processing is easy. Spam and antivirus processing is a bit more
> complicated process. Since I'll have two boxes doing the processing, I
> can easily take one of the boxes down if something goes wrong (IE, I can
> take relay1 down at anytime, and relay2 will still function for all mail
> because of backup MX records).

> 3) It takes the load off the mail server and "uncomplicates" things. If
> something on the mail server breaks, I'll have to figure out whether its
> the LDA, MTA, amavisd, spamd, or antivirus, or even LDAP. Now, I divide
> it up a bit to make things easier.

> Please let me know what all of you think about this final idea. In the
> end it leaves me with a three server setup but at least things will be a
> bit more spread out, and I'll have nice backup processing servers.

> Regards,
> Matt



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