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cPanel MX records

Introduction

To update your MX records with this Domain Name System (DNS) provider,

Steps

cPanel is an administration tool that some domain providers make available for managing your web domain. The steps below explain how to create MX records for a domain managed using cPanel.

  • 1. Log in to the cPanel administrative console.
  • 2. From the Mail section of the page, select MX Entry.
  • 3. In the Email Routing box, select Remote Mail Exchanger and click Change.
  • 4. Include the MX record values shown in the MX record values table.
  • 5. Click Add New Record.
  • 6. Result will be seen as below

Be aware it may take as long as 72 hours before DNS changes are propagated, depending on the time to live (TTL) that was configured for your records. Until records have been updated worldwide, you will still receive traffic to your old server.

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