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jnowlin_44976
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Jun 01, 2009

Load Balance SMTP for Exchange 2007 relay

i am needing to load balance the SMTP relay traffic to my exchange 2007 hub transport servers. i can set this up using auto snat but i have discovered the issue that exchange sees the traffic from my...
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hoolio
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Jan 05, 2011
I think SMTP does support X- like headers like HTTP does though. Here is an example of how to do it using .NET:

 

 

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321section-3.7.1

 

http://www.google.com/search?q=smtp+x+headers

 

http://www.add-in-express.com/forum/read.php?FID=5&TID=1480

 

 

The issue is that we can't use native iRule commands like SMTP::header to insert an SMTP header. I wonder if you could use a stream profile and STREAM::expression iRule to insert the original client IP in an X-Forwarded-For header...

 

 

Aaron