different emails to different servers

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Jan 5 20:44:26 UTC 2006


DH wrote:

>Is it possible to configure DNS MX records to direct emails to different
>servers depending on the user?  For instance, any email sent to
>EmployeeA at domain1.com should go to domain2.com, but all other email to
>anyone at domain1.com needs to go to domain1.com.  Is that even possible?
>
No, this is not possible to do with DNS since the only thing that is 
looked up in DNS is the part after the @-sign, i.e. domain1.com.

You'd have to do this kind of differentiation at the SMTP-server level.

                                                                         
                                                - Kevin




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