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Re: Localized mail servers, global scope


From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:27:10 +0530


Wild idea and there's just too much good german beer here at MAAWG
(www.maawg.org) in Dusseldorf, but .. anybody tried anycasting a
mailserver?

Operationally that is ...

On 23/06/05, Michael.Dillon () btradianz com <Michael.Dillon () btradianz com> wrote:

You don't need a central MX if each site MTA knows which users are at
which sites. Incoming email may have to take an extra hop if it comes in
to the wrong site, but that's a consequence of the specification that no
implementation can fix.

In other words, SMTP does not have the equivalent of an
HTTP redirect which is what he wants here. Maybe SMTP
really is broken? ;-)

--Michael Dillon



-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists () gmail com)


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