Altering your Mail Exchanger (MX Entry) setting

cPanel manages your e-mail through its own mail server. However, by altering your MX (Mail Exchange Record) Entry, you can point your e-mail to another mail server, if required. Note: cPanel will not be able to manage your e-mail if you change your MX Entry setting. Please do not change your MX Entry unless you know what you are doing!

To alter your MX Entry setting:

1. Click on the Modify Mail Exchanger (MX Entry) link in the Mail area.
2. Click on the Change an MX Entry link.
3. Enter the domain name of the new MX Entry in the available field.
4. Click on the Change button.

Note: You can only change the entry to a domain name (e.g. yourdomain.com), not an IP (Internet Protocol) address.

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Reading your e-mail
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Creating E-mail Forwarders
Deleting Forwarders
Mailing Lists
Spam Assassin
Tracing an e-mail address
Altering your Mail Exchanger (MX Entry) setting