June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
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English
The mail exchanger record (also known as "MX record "or "MX handler") was first defined in RFC 1035.
If you look at an email address, you can see it has two parts divided by an @sign. The left-hand side sign is the recipient and the right-hand side is the hostname or a domain name of that recipient's logical mailbox. So markjr@easydns.com means that you are sending an email to the recipient markjr (that's me) @easydns.com.
The MX record tells other Mail Transport Agents (MTAs) where to send that email destined for any easydns.com addresses.
In common zone-file format, it would look like this:
easydns.com. IN MX 5 mail.easydns.com. easydns.com. IN MX 10 backupmx.easydns.com.
The mail server itself sorts out what ...
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