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NimbostratusMail flow routing with BigIP 2000 load balancers
Hi Rob, we have an SMTP iApp template that's currently a release candidate, but is scheduled to become officially supported in an upcoming release: https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare/smtp-iapp-template-early-release. The deployment guide is here: https://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/f5-smtp-dg.pdf
Although I haven't tested it with the outbound scenario, I think you should be able to use it to load balance SMTP traffic both directions, as long as both your CAS and SPAM appliance are configured to send mail to the respective virtual server addresses and accept mail from the self IP addresses of your BIG-IPs.
NimbostratusMany thanks for the reply Mike.
I am actually testing the SMTP iApp template in my LAB and this seems to be working fine.
Unfortunately I don't have access to a SPAM filter in the LAB hence my question.
What you state above seems perfectly logical so I will give this a try once I have the F5's in the live environment.
I can always just point the CAS servers back to the SPAM filters direct if needed.
Cheers,
Rob
