MX records ??

[Van Colen Mirko]

OK, so is it even possible to create different email-addresses like :

webmaster at thraso.com --> vcmirko at village.uunet.be
vcmirko at thraso.com --> vcmirko at hotmail.com
sylvie at thraso.com --> sdejonghe at mail.dma.be

????

This confuses me, because my zonefile was previously hosted by
yournamefree.com and they allowed to make 10 aliases to whatever
email-address I wanted.  However I need more that 10...

?? thanx

slash

Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov> wrote in message
news:199908051723.NAA00208 at fw1-a.osis.gov...
> > I'm writing my own granitecanyon-zonefile.  As for now, only the
> > address-record seem to work, my MX-records don't, I not really familiar
with
> > all this DNS-stuff.  (I would like to learn it though)  here are my
> > MX-records.  I must be missing something but I don't know what ?
> >
> > webmaster.thraso.com IN MX vcmirko at village.uunet.be
> > vcmirko.thraso.com IN MX vcmirko at hotmail.com
> >
> > What is wrong or missing ?
>
> Same as with URLs.  DNS does NOT handle e-mail addresses.  The
> right-hand side of an MX record must be the name of an e-mail host.
> The e-mail host will take all mail addressed to the hosts or domains on
> the left-hand side, and "do the right thing" with them.
>
> The MX records you have written above say:
>
> If any mail is sent to anybody at webmaster.thraso.com, then send
> that email to the host whose name is "vcmirko at village.uunet.be"
> (that is, in domain uunet.be, host name "vcmirko at village").
> That host will be able to accept e-mail addressed to
> anybody at webmaster.thraso.com and direct it to the right place.
>
> If any mail is sent to anybody at vcmirko.thraso.com, then send
> that email to the host whose name is "vcmirko at hotmail.com"
> (that is, in domain com, host name "vcmirko at hotmail").  That
> host will be able to accept e-mail addressed to
> anybody at vcmirko.thraso.com and direct it to the right place.
>
> Somehow, I do NOT think that is what you wanted to do.
>
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