[Dovecot] Hints for a NFS-Setup

Patrick Domack patrickdk at patrickdk.com
Wed Apr 4 16:57:01 EEST 2012


Quoting Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> On 4.4.2012, at 16.04, Patrick Westenberg wrote:
>
>> Timo Sirainen schrieb:
>>
>>> where lmtp.example.com expands to your two IP addresses. DNS  
>>> server handles load balancing by returning IPs in round robin and  
>>> Postfix handles fallbacking to the second IP if the first one  
>>> doesn't work. Dovecot has similar behavior in several places.
>>
>> As far as I understand, lmtp.example.com with out records would  
>> result in a MX-lookup. If postfix behaves for lmtp like it does for  
>> smtp, it will try all listed MX (my directors) in turn.
>
> MX lookups are intended for SMTP, I very much doubt LMTP uses them?

Yes, but postfix lmtp is the same binary as smtp, at least currently.





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