High Availability with postfix

Diego M. Vadell dvadell at lantech.com.ar
Tue Nov 13 15:01:13 CET 2018


On Tuesday 13 November 2018 05:58:33 am Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 12.11.18 12:06, dvadell wrote:
> >I would like to have a couple of servers just for amavis, for high
> >availability. What's the usual way of doing that? Using HAProxy? With
> >a MX record at postfix' side?
>
> using vrrp or ipvs is an alternative.
>
> multiple MX records are fine, but
> - only applicable for mail from other servers, not clients
>
> - some mail services were reported for long times between reetries, could
>   delay mail when one of servers is down.

Sorry, I didn't explain what I wanted to do. I was talking about having a 
couple of boxes only for amavis. What's the usual way of having a pool of 
amavis servers in HA, and making (our) postfix talk with them?

Sorry for my english. As you may have guessed, it's not my mother language.


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