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Re: Best practive for TLS/DNS Setup for exim



On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 05:10:33PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Just curious, if I have multiple MX records, how would you sync the incoming 
> emails (*) ? I can see with an NFS mounted home directory with Maildir 
> mailboxes that could work and dovecot could probably run on multiple hosts (or 
> at least it would be possible to switch the imap DNS entry if needed). But 
> then the NFS server is the single point of failure. Are there better ways to 
> sync the mail servers behind the MX records than NFS?

You're assuming the secondary MX performs actual local deliveries.  That's
not normally the case.  A secondary MX usually just queues up the messages
for SMTP delivery to the primary MX.


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