Tag: MX

You can set custom MX entry for your domain with cPanel. This is done to set mail server of your domain to a remote server.

1) Click on “MX Entry” under the Mail area in cPanel.

2) For MX Entry Choose the option “” under email routing.

Click on the button “Change”  to save the settings.

3) Under Add New Record, set the priority for the new MX Entry (Lower values denote higher priority,0 is the highest priority).

Add  hostname of the new mail exchanger in the text box “Destination“.

Click “Add New Record” to store the changes.

4) Existing MX Entries are seen under ” MX Records“. You can edit or delete these MX entries.

Check Email Delivery Route with cPanel

Email Delivery Route option is to verify specific path that will be taken by an outgoing message when send from the server.

1) Click on the “Email Delivery Route”  in the Mail area.


2) Enter  an email address in the text box to see the delivery path

click Show Route

3)  An Example of Email Address Trace is shown below.