MX Record – What is…
MX Records (Mail Exchange) are DNS records that are used to route email to email servers. You can have numerous MX Records posting to different email servers to prevent loss of email due to downtime. Email is sent to servers pointed to in MX records based on Priority which states that the lowest the Priority number the higher the priority of the server. Emails will be routed to MX records of 0 first.
Nice. Thanks for this. Good content.
I hope you make more vids like this soon.
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So im trying to send an email . I use yahoo and the person im sending it to has a weird email. Its @ and the school they go to. I get the no mx record msg come up and it didnt send. How do i get the email to go through?
i follow eli when he started the youtube channel a few years ago to maybe a year ago when he had a meltdown on life, youtube, etc. i guess he is back to normal now.
I know that this is an older video now but liked and subbed because I’ve seen a few of your videos now on some admin-related info and you make great content. Your explanations are clear and concise. Thanks!
I thought you were done done done with this kind of content. Glad you aren’t. Always room for instructional content.
You Are great Man!!
Hey, Thanks for the explanation, I have a question,
I have a mail server on priority 10. (first server)
Now I have another mail server, let’s make its priority 20. (second server)
When will the mail second server (priority 20) get the mail?
As you told it will be there if the higher priority server goes down.
Can the second server will get the mail if the recipient email address is not on first server?
I mean, I have 1@example.com, 2@example.com …. 10@example.com on the first server (priority 10). will the mail sent to 11@example.com be delivered to second server (priority 20)?
Great explanation as is always the way with your videos 👍
Thank you Eli, you make it so easy
hello glad to see you make this kind of content😎
love this content Eli!
woohoo, more plain speak learnin’
Hi Eli can i setup 2 MX records for 2 different provider
Glad too see you doing"What is" videos, your great at explaing things easily to understand
can you teach also Spf and dkim? what are used for thanks
Hey Eli, I’ve learned that you can only put in domain names as mx records and no ip addresses. Is that true?
Hey Eli can you put a red tack on Melbourne Australia. Just to show that I’m present ..😁😁
you are back to what you are supposed to be teaching. thanks!
These networking topics are interesting!
Just one doubt instead of MX Records we can use the CNAME Record for the same as you said in your early lecture, then what is the need for MX Records??
Beautifully succinct. Thank you Eli.
1:45 If MX is an IP address of machine that is receiving mail for you, what DNS record tells the address of a server that is sending your mail? SPF?
Bro your awesome
Thanks for all the knowledge share here
more ‘short’ videos like this would be great!
‘nslookup -type=MX 2subdomain.1domain’ (mail_username@2subdomain.1domain)
Does a "hole" in the series of the numbers for MX server’s priority pose any security risks? Ie. 0,1,2,3,4 better than 0,10,20,30,40 ?
Why does every service on the internet use a normal dns a record yet email uses mx?
So glad you came back. Missed the content
Finally you are back in the show… Thanks for the tutorial.
That was really helpful. Thanks Eli for such a simple and clear explanation. 🙂