MX Record

MX records, or Mail Exchange records, define the mail servers responsible for accepting email on behalf of a domain.

MX records must point to a hostname (or subdomain) specific to the email server. For example, a website hosted at example.com would need a separate hostname, like mailserver.example.com, and a corresponding MX record to receive mail at that domain.

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