{"id":2072,"date":"2010-01-22T01:06:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T06:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2010-01-22T01:06:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T06:06:03","slug":"setup-external-mx-records-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/setup-external-mx-records-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"Setup external MX records in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your domain is using external an mail server like Google mail for its pop and smtp activities, you need to make the following changes in your cpanel server.<\/p>\n<p>Go into WHM \/ DNS Functions \/ Edit a DNS Zone and select the domain > <\/p>\n<p>where it says;<br \/>\nmail | 14400 | cname | domainname.com<br \/>\nchange to<br \/>\nmail | 14400 | A | 222.222.222.222 ( which is the IP of your customers preferred mail server)<\/p>\n<p>This will point the system to the new mail server. Now, log into your server as root using SSH and<\/p>\n<p>REMOVE the domain from \/etc\/localdomains and then ADD the domain to \/etc\/remotedomains.<\/p>\n<p>and then restart exim. Check your configuration via the following command to send a test email.<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\nsendmail -v \u201ctest@gmail.com\u201d<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nsendmail should connect to google via the mx records. You can also use the following command to find an MX record :<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\ndig domainname.com MX<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your domain is using external an mail server like Google mail for its pop and smtp activities, you need to make the following changes in your cpanel server. 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