From 9d868699fe988c166d4bbcd9e816fd717e9b24aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gergely Polonkai Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:06:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix quotation mark hell in last post --- ...-08-27-how-my-email-gets-to-that-other-guy.markdown | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2015-08-27-how-my-email-gets-to-that-other-guy.markdown b/_posts/2015-08-27-how-my-email-gets-to-that-other-guy.markdown index 7e08cd5..04bd2b4 100644 --- a/_posts/2015-08-27-how-my-email-gets-to-that-other-guy.markdown +++ b/_posts/2015-08-27-how-my-email-gets-to-that-other-guy.markdown @@ -87,17 +87,17 @@ not always) consist of two strings of letters, separated by dots (e.g. polonkai.eu, gmail.com, my-very-long-domain.co.uk, etc.), and a hostname is a domain name occasionally prefixed with something (e.g. **www**.gmail.com, **my-server**.my-very-long-domain.co.uk, etc.) One of the main jobs of DNS -is to keep record of hostname/address pairs. When you enter “gmail.com” +is to keep record of hostname/address pairs. When you enter `gmail.com` (which happens to be both a domain name and a hostname) in your browser’s address bar, your computer asks the DNS service if it knows the actual -address of the building that people call “gmail.com”. If it does, it will +address of the building that people call `gmail.com`. If it does, it will happily tell your computer the number of that building. Another DNS job is to store some meta data about these domain names. For such meta data there are record types, one of these types being the Mail eXchanger, or MX. This record of a domain tells the world who is handling -incoming mails for the specified domain. For “gmail.com” this is -“gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com” (among others; there can be multiple records of +incoming mails for the specified domain. For `gmail.com` this is +`gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com` (among others; there can be multiple records of the same type, in which case they usually have priorities, too.) One more rule: when two computers talk to each other they use so called @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ Now that the MTA has passed your mail to the mailbox team (I call it a team instead of department because the tasks described here are usually handled by the MTA, too), it reads it. (Pesky little guys are these mail handling departments, aren’t they?) If the mailbox has some filtering rules, like “if -XY sends me letter, mark it as important” or “if the letter has a specific +XY sends me a letter, mark it as important” or “if the letter has a specific word in its subject, put it in the XY folder”, it executes them, but the main point is to land the message in the actual post box of the recipient.