From the command line you can check your MX records using dig

I’m sure there are other ways but I’ve recently learned a method to check your MX records using the dig command.

Dig is a pretty powerful command to have in your arsenal. Perhaps, I’ll provide a more complete tutorial someday but for now I’ll stick with this example.


$ dig ttamniwdoog.com MX

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> ttamniwdoog.com MX
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60650
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ttamniwdoog.com. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ttamniwdoog.com. 14400 IN MX 0 aspmx.l.google.com.

;; Query time: 250 msec
;; SERVER: 66.33.216.208#53(66.33.216.208)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 17 09:11:25 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 64

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