Windows users? You’ll need to enable telnet by searching for “Turn Windows features Ok, got that mail server address handy? Now the party begins because from this point, the commands should beĮxactly the same across all major platforms with one quick caveat. Interrogating/whispering to the mail server Let me know if you figure out how to use nslookup in Which lives under the section for Windows Server. If you want to read more about nslookup for command prompt, I dug up Once more, aspmx.l., the server with the highest preference is the one we’re Personally, I’m not much of a Windows development person so I actually had to look up the Windowsįor Powershell, there’s a cmdlet called Resolve-DnsName that was surprisingly straightĮ MX preference = 20, mail exchanger = .Į MX preference = 20, mail exchanger = .Į MX preference = 30, mail exchanger = Į MX preference = 30, mail exchanger = Į MX preference = 30, mail exchanger = Į MX preference = 30, mail exchanger = Į MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = aspmx.l. Go ahead and copy the highest priority mail server, aspmx.l., to your clipboard as Using Gmail, likely as part of Google’s GSuite offering.
What we can see here is a list of the different mail servers used by Evernote. Should get a bunch of Google domains back like so:Į mail exchanger = 20 .Į mail exchanger = 20 .Į mail exchanger = 30 .Į mail exchanger = 30 .Į mail exchanger = 30 .Į mail exchanger = 30 .Į mail exchanger = 10 aspmx.l. Fire up a terminal and enter nslookup -q=MX and you Goingįorward however, I’ll be using .įor macOS and Linux, we’ll want to use nslookup which should come ready to go as part of Particular domain you’re interested in, just swap out for your domain of choice. Let’s just pretend we’re trying to find a valid email from scratch.
So that’s why I’ve picked it since it’s such an obvious format. You can see themĪnyway, if I had to take a blind guess, would be a valid email.
Thank him and the Evernote team for their wonderful Behind the Scenes videos. I’ll take you through a recent example where I wanted to email Ian Small, the CEO of Evernote, to There’s a handy way to find out using a mix of nslookup and telnet. They might have verbally told it to you, but you can’t remember if it has a dot or a dash! Luckily, Sometimes I’ll want to email someone but I don’t know if their email address is valid. Interrogating/whispering to the mail server.Finding the mail server (macOS / Linux).
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