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What is an MX Record?

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From: Mark Sirota
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1989 20:31
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What exactly is an MX Record?  I understand the functionality, but how are
they implemented?  I assume it's not just a line in the sendmail.cf which
aliases one name to another...
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Mark Sirota - University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
 Internet: msir@cc.rochester.edu
 Bitnet:   msir_ss@uordbv.bitnet
 UUCP:     ...!rochester!ur-cc!msir
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From: msir@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: What is an MX Record?
Message-ID: <2213@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 89 20:31:55 GMT
Reply-To: Mark Sirota <msir@cc.rochester.edu>
Followup-To: comp.mail.misc
Organization: Univ. of Rochester, Computing Center
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