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MX Lookup: Check the Mail Server of A Domain

With EXPERTE.com's MX Lookup you can quickly and easily check a domain's mail server entries. To get started, simply enter the desired domain in the uppermost field.

After that, you'll receive a table showing all of the domain's MX entries.

MX Entry - Structure

An MX entry shows which (sub) domain the mail server of a particular (sub) domain is available on. This is necessary to make sure that emails are sent to the correct server, such as info@experte.de as opposed to info@experte.org.

MX entries are composed of the following elements:

Element

Description

Type

MX

Priority

Determines the entry's priority (entries with a lower value have more priority)

Mail Server

Name of the mail server

TTL

Time to live (how long the entry should remain in the cache)

MX Lookup - Process

In order to send an email to info@experte.de, you'll need to follow the steps below:

  • 1.

    The sender queries experte.de's MX entries via our tool and receives:

    1 aspmx.l.google.com.
    5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
    ...

  • 2.

    The sender selects the A entry for the mail server with the highest priority (aspmx.l.google.com) and receives the following IP address: 108.177.15.27

  • 3.

    The sender dispatches the email and the IP address received in Step 2. Should this return an error message, the sender can try the second mail server.

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Janis von Bleichert studied business informatics at the TU Munich and computer science at the TU Berlin, Germany. He has been self-employed since 2006 and is the founder of EXPERTE.com. He writes about hosting, software and IT security.
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