How to mail id from the domain in dig
In dig
command, you can use the -t
option to specify the type of query you want to perform. To query for the mail exchanger (MX) records for a domain, you can use the following command:
dig +short mx example.com
This will return the mail exchanger records for the example.com
domain, which will include the mail server(s) responsible for receiving email for that domain.
If you want to query for the mail server(s) responsible for sending email from a specific domain, you can use the following command:
dig +short a example.com
This will return the IP address(es) associated with the example.com
domain, which can be used to send email from that domain.
Note: The +short
option tells dig
to return only the answer section of the response, without the additional sections (e.g. authority, additional).
Also, you can use the -x
option to query for the mail server(s) responsible for sending email from a specific domain, it will return the mail server(s) responsible for sending email from the domain.
dig -x example.com
You can also use the mx
option to query for the mail exchanger records for a domain, it will return the mail exchanger records for the domain.
dig mx example.com
Please keep in mind that the output of these commands may vary depending on the DNS configuration of the domain and the DNS server you are querying.