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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2005
Eliot C. Gillum, Los Gatos, CA (US);
David Braun, Redmond, WA (US);
Eliot C. Gillum, Los Gatos, CA (US);
David Braun, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing email using a flexible routing technique based on MX records. The method includes the steps of creating an MX record for a user, the MX record identifying a storage location for the user within the system; and routing mail within the enterprise email system using the information contained in the MX record. A system may include an inbound mail transfer agent coupled to an external network and an internal network; user email data storage having an address within the internal network; a user location database server containing a unique user token identifying a storage location for user email data in the user email data storage; and an internal DNS server including MX records for storage domains on the internal network.