MX Record Planner

Plan MX record priorities with fallback guidance, best practices, and sample configurations for popular email providers.

MX Records

High priority, secondary mail servers
Medium priority, backup servers
Quick Examples
Priority Guidelines
0-9 Highest priority, primary mail servers
10-19 High priority, secondary mail servers
20-49 Medium priority, backup servers
50+ Low priority, fallback servers

MX Best Practices

  • Always have at least two MX records for redundancy
  • Use different priority values to control mail flow
  • Ensure all mail servers are properly configured
  • Test mail delivery to all configured servers
  • Consider geographic distribution for better performance

Generated MX Records

Domain
TTL
Type
Priority
Mail Server
Status
example.com
3600
MX
10
mail1.example.com.
Valid
example.com
3600
MX
20
mail2.example.com.
Valid