Is it possible for, say, the addresses pmak@anifics.com and sunlord@anifics.com to be hosted on different machines (for real, not by using forwards)? Or can only one machine be set to receive e-mail of a domain?

Originally posted by pmak0
Is it possible for, say, the addresses pmak@anifics.com and sunlord@anifics.com to be hosted on different machines (for real, not by using forwards)? Or can only one machine be set to receive e-mail of a domain?

I do not think what you ask is precisely possible, however there are two alternatives that I know of, maybe one will be suitbale for you:

Each of the two machines has its own hostname, so you can do: pmak@host1.anifics.com and sunlord@host2.anifics.com.

Alternatively, you could set up a forwarding service at anifics.com and forward one of the email addresses to another host.


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Yes, it can be done..... the large ISPs use a system for load balancing purposes.... but, I'm not sure how one would go about setting it up.

Its easy. Round robin DNS to multiple Mail Servers. Then have all mail servers share a common userlist/database. And also, NFS the main HD space to all mail servers.