Paul Edmondson says
There is something called an MX record that is part of a domain's DNS. The MX record is used to map emails to a server to receive the incoming mail through the SMTP protocol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record is a good, but fairly technical overview of how MX records work.
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