Can I use MX Record Configuration to send one account's email to one server and a second account's email to a different server?

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For example, let's say my MX Record(s) specify:

0 server1 mydomainexample.com

1 server2 mydomainexample.com

Now let's say:

me@mydomainexample.com is an account on server1

and

you@mydomainexample.com is an account on server2

Will the sender try to send you@mydomainexample.com mail on server1 and fail over to server2?

No it won't. If you want to do this you'll need to set up SMTP namespace sharing. — joeqwerty, Jan 10 '14 at 21:33
Mouseover the arrow: "*this question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful*". — MadHatter, Jan 11 '14 at 07:57

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 10 '14 at 21:40

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No. If you need to do this you will need a mail-aware application running on :25 on the servers that are the targets for the MX records that can sort out where to deliver or forward the mail to.

answered Jan 10 '14 at 21:40

Mark Henderson

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user9517 · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-11T07:10:33.967

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No, the values at the start of your records are MX preference values. Preference values are used to advise servers wishing to deliver mail to example.com which is the preferred host to deliver to. The lower the value the more preferred the host is.

In your example mail will only be delivered to server2 if server 1 is unavailable.

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answered Jan 10 '14 at 21:48

user9517

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 10 '14 at 22:22

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fyi, MX record is for INCOMING mails and not for outgoing, you might want to spend some time reading more into it so that you'll understand it better: MX record - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

answered Jan 10 '14 at 22:22

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Can I use MX Record Configuration to send one account's email to one server and a second account's email to a different server?

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