knowing a mail server address

juanb · 02-06-2003, 06:58 AM

Who can I know the name of a mail server for let's say sarel.co.il

and it's Ip address ?

from my RED HAT 7.3

jharris · 02-06-2003, 07:04 AM

You need to lookup the mail exchanger(s) for the domain. Try the following

Code:

host -t MX sarel.co.il

You should get something like

Code:

root@kenny:~# host -t MX sarel.co.il
sarel.co.il. mail is handled by 10 mail.sarel.co.il.
sarel.co.il. mail is handled by 100 mx10.netvision.net.il.
sarel.co.il. mail is handled by 1000 nypop.elron.net.

HTH

Jamie...