Re: Multiple relays and rate control with anvil

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Multiple relays and rate control with anvil
\ Angel L. Mateo (28 May 2007)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (28 May 2007)
. . \ Angel L. Mateo (29 May 2007)
. . . \ (Wietse Venema) (29 May 2007)
. . . . \ Angel L. Mateo (30 May 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Multiple relays and rate control with anvil
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Angel L. Mateo
Date:	30 May 2007

El mar, 29-05-2007 a las 07:04 -0400, Wietse Venema escribió:

> Shared anvil service is not implemented. Making it scalable across
> multiple MTAs is not simply a matter of changing the endpoint into
> a TCP socket. It would need to be made redundant so that mail
> doesn't stop when a single anvil process fails.
>
> You can make a two-line edit to the Postfix source and make the
> endpoint name configurable, but this introduces a single point of
> failure where all MTAs become dependent on a single anvil process.
>
We were thinking about having 4 anvil services sharing their
information, but if this is not possible, it isn't a serious problem for
us, because anvil is detecting virus infected PCs injecting mail, but we
thought that if the could share their database we could the detect the
problem earlier.

Thank you so much for your help.

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Angel L. Mateo Martínez
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