{"id":963,"date":"2018-01-07T15:03:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demon.comz\/?p=963"},"modified":"2018-01-07T15:03:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:03:39","slug":"how-to-add-an-mx-record-in-cpanel-using-dns-zone-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-add-an-mx-record-in-cpanel-using-dns-zone-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add an MX Record in cPanel using DNS Zone Editor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A mail exchanger record (MX record) is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System that specifies a mail server responsible for accepting email messages. You can add an <strong>MX Record<\/strong> using the cPanel&#8217;s Zone Editor option.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Log into your cPanel account. (e.g., www.example.com\/cPanel )<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> In the <strong>Domains<\/strong> section, click on the <strong>Zone Editor<\/strong> icon.<br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/cpanel-dnszone-icon.gif\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Under <strong>Domains<\/strong>, you can see many options below the <strong>Actions<\/strong> text.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/cpanel-cname-mxrec-domains.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Click on the <strong>MX Record<\/strong>, and a small window will open. Please enter the required details in it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Priority:<\/strong> The MX record you use for mail routing should have the lowest preference number, typically 0. You can use 0 for your mail routing record, and 10 for the record validating that you own your domain.<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Destination:<\/strong> Enter the domain name of your Mail Exchange. If you use an external mail server, enter the domain name of the external mail server. Alternatively, if you use a local mail server, enter your local domain.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/cpanel-mx-record-add-domain.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>5.<\/strong> Now click the <strong>Add an MX Record<\/strong> button.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If the record is added successfully, you will see a success message.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> It may take anywhere from 12 to 24 hours for the changes to take effect worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mail exchanger record (MX record) is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System that specifies a mail server responsible for accepting email messages. You can add an MX Record using the cPanel&#8217;s Zone Editor option. 1. Log into your cPanel account. (e.g., www.example.com\/cPanel ) 2. In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}