whelion.blogg.se - Using cpanel whm to create multiple email accounts

Local Mail Exchanger: Configure local server to always accept mail. let cPanel automatically detect configuration, or you can choose one of the other three options. It is currently using “Automatically Detect Configuration” option to come up with that. For example in this screen shot here we see that domain is configured to receive email on Local server. Once you select the domain, you will be presented with the current MX configuration of the domain. You may have to select the domain from the drop down to proceed.

If you assign multiple mail servers the same priority, then when that level of mail server is needed, mail will be distributed to those servers randomly.

Secondary mail servers (those with higher priority values) can be used for backup or other purposes.

The primary mail server(s) (with the lowest-numbered priority) will receive mail sent to your domain.

Lower values denote higher priority, with 0 being the highest possible priority.

Since it is possible to have multiple mail servers configured to receive emails for a domain, the next screen explains how the priorities work MX records (entries). For some reason cPanel calls it MX Entry instead of MX Record. To change the MX, you can click on MX Entry in Mail section of cPanel. For this reason they will need to change the MX record so that emails can go that particular server.

However at times some clients want to host their email elsewhere. That is why you can create and manage email accounts using cPanel interface, which directly interacts with the local mail server on that server. Therefore MX record is automatically created to specify your web hosting server to be the mail server as well and receive emails. When you order a web hosting account, by default your hosting server where your website is hosted also has a mail server. MX (Mail exchanger) record is a type of resource record in the domain name system that specifies which mail servers are responsible for receiving emails for the domain.