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+<h1>mx</h1>
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+<div id='summary'>Incoming and outgoing MX servers.</div>
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+<div id="TOC"><ol>
+ <li>
+ <a href="index.html#topology">Topology</a>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="index.html#configuration">Configuration</a>
+ <ol>
+ <li>
+ <a href="index.html#aliases">Aliases</a>
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+
+<h2><a name="topology"></a>Topology</h2>
+
+<p><code>mx</code> nodes communicate with the public internet, clients, and <code>couchdb</code> nodes.</p>
+
+<h2><a name="configuration"></a>Configuration</h2>
+
+<h3><a name="aliases"></a>Aliases</h3>
+
+<p>Using the <code>mx.aliases</code> property, you can specify your own hard-coded email aliases that precedence over the aliases in the user database. The <code>mx.aliases</code> property consists of a hash, where source address points to one or more destination addresses.</p>
+
+<p>For example:</p>
+
+<p><code>services/mx.json</code>:</p>
+
+<pre><code>"mx": {
+ "aliases": {
+ "rook": "crow",
+ "robin": "robin@bird.org",
+ "flock": ["junco@bird.org", "robin", "crow"],
+ "chickadee@avian.org": "chickadee@bird.org",
+ "flicker": ["flicker@bird.org", "flicker@deliver.local"]
+ }
+}
+</code></pre>
+
+<p>This example demonstrates several of the features with <code>mx.aliases</code>:</p>
+
+<ol>
+<li>alias lists: by specifying an array of destination addresses, as in the case of &ldquo;flock&rdquo;, the single email will get copied to each address.</li>
+<li>chained resolution: alias resolution will recursively continue until there are no more matching aliases. For example, &ldquo;flock&rdquo; is resolved to &ldquo;robin&rdquo;, which then gets resolved to &ldquo;<a href="&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#114;&#111;&#x62;&#105;&#110;&#64;&#98;&#x69;&#x72;&#x64;&#x2e;&#111;&#x72;&#x67;">&#x72;&#111;&#x62;&#105;&#x6e;&#64;&#98;&#105;&#114;&#100;&#46;&#111;&#x72;&#x67;</a>&rdquo;.</li>
+<li>virtual domains: by specifying the full domain, as in the case of &ldquo;<a href="&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;&#x3a;&#x63;&#104;&#105;&#x63;&#x6b;&#x61;&#100;&#101;&#101;&#x40;&#x61;&#118;&#105;&#x61;&#x6e;&#46;&#x6f;&#114;&#103;">&#x63;&#104;&#x69;&#99;&#x6b;&#97;&#x64;&#101;&#x65;&#64;&#97;&#118;&#x69;&#x61;&#110;&#46;&#111;&#x72;&#103;</a>&rdquo;, the alias will work for any domain you want. Of course, the MX record for that domain must point to appropriate MX servers, but otherwise you don&rsquo;t need to do any additional configuration.</li>
+<li>local delivery: for testing purposes, it is often useful to copy all incoming mail for a particular address and send those copies to another address. You can do this by adding &ldquo;@deliver.local&rdquo; as one of the destination addresses. When &ldquo;@local.delivery&rdquo; is found, alias resolution stops and the mail is delivered to that username.</li>
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