[Rt-devel] sending outgoing mail through many smtp servers ?

Shane Spencer shane at bogomip.com
Wed Feb 3 10:49:38 EST 2010


I agree, send to a local mail server like postfix and set multiple MX
records for your outbound mail in DNS.  Or use the program called
'pen' or its brother 'balance'.

example:
  pen smtp mailhost1 mailhost2 mailhost3

And send to localhost

- Shane

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Ruslan Zakirov <ruslan.zakirov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, Ilya.
>
> I don't think it's good idea to implement more features in SMTP
> transport. It slows down mail sending and after all operations that
> generates mails. Better choice is to use MTA configured in whatever
> you like way and sendmail command in RT.
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Илья Шипицин <chipitsine at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> there's single SMTPServer in RT_Config.pm:
>>
>> Set($SMTPServer, 'mail.local');
>>
>>
>> I'd like to make a patch, which allow multiple smtp-servers, like
>>
>> Set(@SMTPServer, (qw('mail1.local' 'mail2.local')) );
>>
>> the question is: should I just leave new functionality ? or combined scalar
>> + array autodetection algorithm ?
>> sounds like array-functionality would be enough.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ilya Shipitsin
>>
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