{"id":1868,"date":"2021-10-27T13:16:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T07:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2021-10-27T13:16:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T07:46:29","slug":"using-an-external-mail-server-in-direct-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudlinuxhosting.in\/blog\/using-an-external-mail-server-in-direct-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Using an external Mail server in direct admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you wish to use a remote Mailserver, a few changes will need to be made.<\/p>\n<p>1) Go to User Panel -&gt; domain.com -&gt; MX Records<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Diect-admin-Mx-record.png\" alt=\"mail server\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1869\" width=\"980\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There should be an option for &#8220;Local Mail Server&#8221;. Uncheck that option.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/local-options.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1870\" width=\"1340\" height=\"565\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2) You&#8217;ll need to change the MX dns record to point to the external mailserver. Remove the &#8220;mail&#8221; MX record and add &#8220;other.domain.com.&#8221; as the new MX record where that is the domain of the other server.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not have the MX Records menu in your DirectAdmin User Level login, then ask your hosting provider to enable the DNS Control option for your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wish to use a remote Mailserver, a few changes will need to be made. 1) Go to User Panel -&gt; domain.com -&gt; MX Records &nbsp; There should be an option for &#8220;Local Mail Server&#8221;. Uncheck that option. 2) You&#8217;ll need to change the MX dns record to point to the external mailserver. Remove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,50,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-webhosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudlinuxhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudlinuxhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudlinuxhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudlinuxhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudlinuxhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudlinuxhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudlinuxhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudlinuxhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudlinuxhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}