{"id":687,"date":"2018-01-10T18:58:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T13:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/?p=687"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:17:12","slug":"how-to-set-up-an-mx-entry-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/how-to-set-up-an-mx-entry-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set up an MX Entry in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the\u00a0following steps to set up an MX Entry in cPanel.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to the &#8220;Mail&#8221; section of cPanel, click on the &#8220;MX Entry&#8221; icon in cPanel.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mx-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-688 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mx-1.png\" alt=\"mx 1\" width=\"786\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Now, select a particular domain name from the drop-down list, to which MX records to be added.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mx-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-690 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mx-3.png\" alt=\"mx 3\" width=\"757\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Go to &#8220;Add New Record&#8221; section and set the highest priority \u201c0\u201d for the new MX entry.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mx-52.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-696 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mx-52.png\" alt=\"mx 5\" width=\"772\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Now, type the hostname or fully qualified domain name of the new email exchanger in the\u00a0&#8220;Destination&#8221; text box and no IP addresses can\u2019t be mentioned here.<\/li>\n<li>In order to save the settings, you need to Click again on the &#8220;Add New Record&#8221; button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4><strong>Delete MX Record Through cPanel <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>To delete an MX entry, please go through the following steps:<\/p>\n<p>Click on the &#8220;Delete&#8221; button placed near the appropriate MX entry and again confirm the deletion by clicking on &#8220;Delete&#8221; button again.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mx-61.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-697 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/mx-61.png\" alt=\"mx 6\" width=\"731\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><strong>NOTE-<\/strong> Only one MX record could be created and if you want to add new MX record, you need to delete the existing MX record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the\u00a0following steps to set up an MX Entry in cPanel. Go to the &#8220;Mail&#8221; section of cPanel, click on the &#8220;MX Entry&#8221; icon in cPanel. Now, select a particular domain name from the drop-down list, to which MX records to be added. Go to &#8220;Add New Record&#8221; section and set the highest priority \u201c0\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverbasket.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}