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Anywhere in the documentation where you see &$something in the synopsis, if you pass a variable which doesn't already exist PHP will create it for you. If you pass one that does exist, PHP will modify it. This is called passing by-reference.
In this case, getmxrr() creates the variable (an array). It's putting MX hostnames into it.