Umm, yes.� It's called an "MX Record".
scott@zaphod:~$ dig +short mx hotmail.co.nz
5 mx3.hotmail.com.
5 mx4.hotmail.com.
5 mx1.hotmail.com.
5 mx2.hotmail.com.
� Scott.
Ok first off let me advise I'm usually a lurker but this case has me beat and I also need to confess to being no great expert on running an email server...
Client A reports email missing from Client B - A is using an email address on my mail server office@srt.co.nz (not the actual address) . B claims he is sending his email from MT@hotmail.co.nz ... not ever having heard of a .nz suffix for Hotmail I tried to traceroute it - it doesn't resolve to anything "unable to resolve target system name hotmail.co.nz.
B insists that is his email address and that email gets to him ... after getting him to email me directly 1 checked the email headers and noted the received from bay0-omc4-s4.bay0.hotmail.com �- in fact the only mention of hotmail.co.nz is where B has presumably set up his email client...
Question �How is email getting to him at all - is there some sort of wizardry going on that resolves hotmail.co.nz to hotmail.com that is not apparent when checking DNS , tracerouting or trying to browse to hotmail.co.nz?
-------- Original Message --------
From: � � - Sat Jul 09 13:58:45 2011
X-Account-Key: � � account7
X-UIDL: � � 00004d2c48c5dd89
X-Mozilla-Status: � � 0011
X-Mozilla-Status2: � � 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:
Return-Path: <MT@hotmail.co.nz>
X-Spam-Checker-Version: � � SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on webhostnz.com
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: � � No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=3.2.5
X-Original-To: � � webmaster@webhostnz.com
Delivered-To: � � webmaster.webhostnz@mail.webhostnz.com
Received: � � from mail.webhostnz.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.webhostnz.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE4D81AF for
<webmaster@webhostnz.com>; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:41:23 +1200 (NZST)
Received: � � by mail.webhostnz.com (Postfix, from userid 5001) id C5D568351; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:41:23 +1200 (NZST)
Received: � � from bay0-omc4-s4.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc4-s4.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.190.206]) by mail.webhostnz.com
(Postfix) with ESMTP id A20E181AF for <webmaster@webhostnz.com>; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:41:22 +1200 (NZST)
Received: � � from BAY149-W43 ([65.54.190.199]) by bay0-omc4-s4.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Fri, 8
Jul 2011 02:40:49 -0700
Message-ID: <BAY149-w43FCB105C3429A39520901E5400@phx.gbl>
X-Originating-IP: � � [122.60.137.225]
From: � � MT <MT@hotmail.co.nz>
To: � � SW <SW@paradise.net.nz>, <webmaster@webhostnz.com>
Subject: � � RE: SRT missing emails
Date: � � Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:40:49 +1200
Importance: � � Normal
In-Reply-To: <0868FD19-959C-4475-B3E9-6BA3D617A6E2@paradise.net.nz>
References:
<4E169A42.5010800@webhostnz.com>,<9081134D-532B-4302-93DB-0135BAA6A218@paradise.net.nz>,<BAY149-w55E3C900E3E6C0831784FFE5400@phx.gbl>,<0868FD19-959C-4475-B3E9-6BA3D617A6E2@paradise.net.nz>
MIME-Version: � � 1.0
X-OriginalArrivalTime: � � 08 Jul 2011 09:40:49.0250 (UTC) FILETIME=[1EA34C20:01CC3D53]
X-Antivirus: � � AVG for E-mail 9.0.901 [271.1.1/3750]
Content-Type: � � multipart/mixed; boundary="=======AVGMAIL-3A4A79CC======="
<<END>>
Happy to receive replies direct...
Ian Cousins
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