Shamelessly thieved from here. Davak did a really good job in writing this up. Carried this around in my wallet for the last couple of years.
People are often curious what the mail server is for a given domain. Here’s a quick way to find out…
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- 1. Click
Start
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- 2. Click
Run
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- 3. Type
cmd
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- in the textbox and hit enter
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- 4. In the command line type
nslookup
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- 5. Enter
set type = mx
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- 6. Enter the name of the domain you want to look up
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- 7. When you are done type
exit
Here’s an example looking up Microsoft’s mail server. You can see that microsoft’s mail servers are named maila, mailb, and mailc.*
C:\Documents and Settings\Tech-Recipes>nslookup
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.1: Non-existent domain
*** Default servers are not available
Default Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1
> set type=mx
> microsoft.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
microsoft.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = maila.microsoft.com
microsoft.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mailb.microsoft.com
microsoft.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mailc.microsoft.com
>
* – back in the day, circa 2004, Microsoft’s mail servers were called maila / mailb / mailc . Not anymore.