Re: [GENERAL] Looking for mail relays ...

Appendum to this ... to do mail relaying for this, there is nothing
specially that has to be installed on your server, it is just a simple
configuration change depending on your MTA ...

For instance, with sendmail, you add a line similar to:

200.46.204.71 RELAY

to your access file

With postfix, you add 200.46.204.71 to your relay_domains entry in main.cf
...

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> G'day all ...
>
> With the growing # of subscribers to the lists, as well as growing list
> activity, ppl are reporting a slowdown in the speed that mail is being
> processed through from sender to recipient ...
>
> The major slowdown tends to arrive when the mail queue on the serving
> machine gets very large, so over the past few months, we've been working
> on distributing that load around to various servers provided to the
> community.
>
> In order to improve things further, we'd like to increase the number
> even further ...
>
> Right now, we have the following TLDs covered:
>
> /\.(jp)$/
> /\.(fr|uk|de|pl|ad|se|gr|be|ch|dk|es|fi|gi|ie|it|lu|nl|no|pt|tr|at)$/
> /\.(com|net|org|ca|edu|biz|us|mil|ws|info)$/
>
> Both of the first two lists are being covered right now by one server,
> so if anyone in those locals would like to take some of the load, please
> let us know.
>
> The third one right now is being covered by 6 relay servers right now,
> but we'd like to double that if we can ...
>
> If there are any TLDs that aren't covered in the above, that you would
> be willing to handle, please let us know as well.
>
> On average, the heaviest 'zone' (and the reason we'd like to get a few
> more going) is the third above (.com, etc) ... we're finding the relays
> are handling ~100mb/day of traffic through them ... the more we can spread
> it out, the lower the per server traffic, of course.
>
> If you are able to offer a relay, but you can only do a small part (ie.
> a Canadian site only willing ot handle .ca domains), that is great as
> well, as it takes some load off of the other servers, which is our desire
> ...
>
> If you are able to help, please email me directly and we'll get you
> setup.
>
> Thanks ...
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> Email: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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