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Old 22 Nov 2022, 04:15 PM   #8
JeremyNicoll
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Originally Posted by pjroutledge View Post
The article does show how different email addresses at the same domain can be directed to different destinations.
It really doesn't.

Please explain precisely what text in that article makes you think it does.

Is it possible that you think that the use of an "@" in some of these definitions is email-address-related? It's not. It's just a shorthand form that means "this domain" as opposed to a named subdomain of "this domain".

Nothing I've read anywhere about MX records suggests they can ever contain anything that relates, in email addresses, to whatever's before the "@" sign.

The sending SMTP server only uses MX records to decide which receiving SMTP server it should attempt to deliver a domain/subdomain's email to. It's up to the latter server to decide if it will accept the email; one of the criteria it applies will be its local configuration specifying whether or not emails are only accepted for defined addresses.
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