MX record

We are all forwarding emails at the office. For example, you need to pass some documents to the accounting departments or share information from a client with your colleagues. But in some cases, you want to forward all the emails that go to a particular email inbox automatically without moving a finger. So then you need to use email forwarding. 

What is email forwarding? 

Email forwarding is a process of automatic email redirecting (forwarding) from one email address to another that is made on a domain level. 

To start using email forwards, you need to have an MX record. The MX record will indicate which email server should receive emails for the specified domain. Without it, you can’t receive emails. 

After the creation of that DNS record, you need to open the MX record and add a forward. After that, you only need to specify from which email to which email the incoming emails must be redirected. 

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As far as we know, there are a lot of DNS record types in the Domain Name System. These are an essential and indispensable part of all DNS resolution. Their main role is to provide information about the domain and its IP address. The records are stored in a DNS file, hosted on the authoritative DNS server. They are used to present information to the DNS resolver about different types of data. 

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