People are often curious to know the mail server for a given domain. This tutorial describes a quick way to find out.
Use the following steps to determine the mail server for any known domain:
- 1. Click Start.
2. Click Run.
3. Type cmd in the textbox, and hit Enter.
4. In the command line, type nslookup
5. Enter set type = mx
6. Enter the name of the domain you want to look up.
7. When you are done, type exit
Here is an example which uses the steps above to find Microsoft’s mail servers. 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
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