[SOLVED] Round robin / Exim4 / Mail delivery SMTP

jchambers · 04-30-2011, 04:59 AM

Hello --

Here is the senario...

2 round robin dns servers
x.x.x.1 mydomain.com (hostname)
x.x.x.2 mydomain.com (hostname)

My problem is that when I try and send an email that is part of the domain, it ends up trying to deliver it locally. I realize it is supposed to, but I don't want that for non-users of the server.

I want to be able to deliver certain emails []@mydomain.com remotely. (info@mydomain.com)

exim4 setup "internet site; mail is sent and received directly using SMTP".
This works well as long as it is not an email from mydomain.com.

Is there a way to have exim check the users first and then deliver based on local user or not?

Next question.
Is having the domain name as the hostname the best way to setup a round robin? (web server)

Jon

jchambers · 05-03-2011, 04:42 AM

SOLVED:

Debian: Linux web-92.domain.com 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue Mar 8 21:36:00 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

I changed the FQDN hostname of the servers.

From: domain.com
To: web-[IP].domain.com

Edit: /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf

Code:

dc_other_hostnames='web-92.domain.com'
dc_local_interfaces='x.x.x.92'
dc_readhost='web-92.domain.com'

# update-exim4.conf
# /etc/init.d/exim4 restart

Test with:
#exim -bt [user]@domain.com

You should get something like this

Code:

R: dnslookup for [user]@domain.com
[user]@domain.com
  router = dnslookup, transport = remote_smtp
  host smtp.mailserver.com       [x.x.x.x] MX=0

Hope this helps...