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mail exchange

Summary

mail exchange ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (101 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • mail exchange's subclass of is recorded as resource record[2].
  • mail exchange's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0hkmh[3].
  • mail exchange's described by source is recorded as RFC 1035: Domain names - implementation and specification[4].
  • mail exchange's described by source is recorded as RFC 7505: A "Null MX" No Service Resource Record for Domains That Accept No Mail[5].
  • mail exchange's replaces is recorded as mail destination[6].
  • mail exchange's replaces is recorded as mail forwarder[7].
  • mail exchange's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/mx-record[8].
  • mail exchange's series ordinal is recorded as 15[9].
  • mail exchange's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'MX'}[10].
  • mail exchange's Quora topic ID is recorded as MX-Record[11].
  • mail exchange's P6009 is recorded as 1685[12].
  • mail exchange's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 191853054[13].
  • mail exchange's FOLDOC ID is recorded as MX+Record[14].
  • mail exchange's ComputerLanguage.com definition is recorded as MX+record[15].

Why It Matters

mail exchange ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (101 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . iana.org. Retrieved . iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . iana.org. Retrieved . iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . iana.org. Retrieved . iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . iana.org. Retrieved . iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . iana.org. Retrieved . iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . iana.org. Retrieved . iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). mail exchange. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/mail-exchange
MLA “mail exchange.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/mail-exchange.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_mail-exchange_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{mail exchange}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/mail-exchange}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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