{"id":2947,"date":"2021-10-12T11:05:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T11:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2021-10-13T07:27:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T07:27:15","slug":"how-to-do-email-routing-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/how-to-do-email-routing-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Do Email Routing in cPanel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although all hosting servers run all emails with their domain, cPanel permits users to send and manage email accounts through email client like webmail via SMTP\/POP\/IMAP connection protocols. Also, to direct or \u201croute\u201d incoming domain emails to a unique server cPanel clients will use email routing.<\/p>\n<p>It is a preventative measure that helps run email hosting because the domain\u2019s DNS entries auto reflects the changes created within the cPanel. it&#8217;s an excellent feature that acts as a backup server for email throughout emergencies like server downtimes or server crashes.<\/p>\n<h2>To Configure Email Routing let&#8217;s see the steps as below:<\/h2>\n<p>1. As root user Log in to <strong>cPanel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>2. In the <strong>EMAILS<\/strong> section click on <strong>Email Routing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2983 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/routing-email-1-300x84.png\" alt=\"routing-email-1\" width=\"900\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/routing-email-1-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/routing-email-1-768x216.png 768w, https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/routing-email-1.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Email Routing application will get open.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>From the dropdown list Select a Domain to route its incoming mail to another server.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>2. After that select the configuration for email routing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Automatically Detect Configuration<\/strong> : <strong>Local<\/strong> \u2013 it&#8217;s a suggested configuration setting for email routing. It considers the priority of your MX Records and automatically choose a configuration among Local , Backup, or Remote mail Exchanger.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Local Mail Exchanger<\/strong> \u2013 This selection can permit the system to just accept all emails with none preference and deliver the mail to the local mailbox.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Backup Mail Exchanger<\/strong> \u2013 If the first mail Exchanger with a correct MX entry is down, this option can permit the server to act as a backup exchanger. It will then hold all the incoming mail till the first mail exchanger comes back on-line.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Remote Mail Exchanger<\/strong> \u2013 No mail from this domain can route to the server, i.e., the server won&#8217;t accept for mail for this domain. Instead, it&#8217;ll send all of this domain\u2019s mail to lowest numbered mail exchanger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3. Finally click on the <strong>Change<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2984 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/routing-email-2-300x121.png\" alt=\"routing-email-2\" width=\"900\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/routing-email-2-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/routing-email-2-768x309.png 768w, https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/routing-email-2.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although all hosting servers run all emails with their domain, cPanel permits users to send and manage email accounts through email client like webmail via SMTP\/POP\/IMAP connection protocols. Also, to direct or \u201croute\u201d incoming domain emails to a unique server cPanel clients will use email routing. It is a preventative measure that helps run email [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}