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Our sysadmin created our mailserver years ago before he left. We recently decided to use gmail as our mail app and they required us to change the MX record to point to them on amazon route 53 app. I need to determine the old MX record we had. It's got to be somewhere on the server. I'm pretty sure it's mail.server.con. How do I retrieve this?

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    I'm not understanding why you need to know what it used to be. Can you clarify?
    – joeqwerty
    Dec 19, 2014 at 20:56
  • Find the person who changed the MX record? Dec 19, 2014 at 20:57
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    This question appears to be off-topic because you should have a minimal understanding of the problem being solved.
    – Wesley
    Dec 19, 2014 at 21:00

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Erm..... First hit from google (search string mx record lookup) was:

http://mxtoolbox.com/

For those who have never used it, it has a history button to show previous mx records for a given domain.

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  • The history feature only shows what lookups mxtoolbox.com has done previously for the record. If it has never done any, then you will find nothing. Dec 19, 2014 at 20:58
  • @Colyn1337 true, but that only works if someone had done a lookup on that site previously for that server.
    – longneck
    Dec 19, 2014 at 20:58
  • @MichaelHampton again, it was a google search, there's tons of tools available if that specific one wasn't querying at that time.
    – Colyn1337
    Dec 19, 2014 at 20:59
  • When I did a Google search, I got completely different results.. :) Dec 19, 2014 at 21:03

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