{"id":1068,"date":"2018-06-13T15:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T15:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=1068"},"modified":"2023-01-13T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T10:09:00","slug":"how-to-change-email-routing-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/how-to-change-email-routing-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Email Routing in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, we will explain how to change Email routing in cPanel.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"what-is-email-routing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is Email Routing?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Email routing is a feature in cPanel that allows you, as a domain owner, to choose how your incoming Email messages are processed, or routed, by the Email server. This can either be your hosting provider\u2019s local Email server, or the Email server of your chosen Email provider e.g. G Suite, Office365 or others.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-to-change-email-routing-in-cpanel\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">How to change Email routing in cPanel<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/how-to-login-cpanel-whm\/\">Login<\/a> to your cPanel account.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2.<\/strong> Navigate to the <em>Email<\/em> section and click on <em>Email Routing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7662\" src=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cPanel-Email-Email-Routing-783x233.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cPanel-Email-Email-Routing-783x233.png 783w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cPanel-Email-Email-Routing-300x89.png 300w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cPanel-Email-Email-Routing-768x229.png 768w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cPanel-Email-Email-Routing-50x15.png 50w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cPanel-Email-Email-Routing-1536x458.png 1536w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cPanel-Email-Email-Routing-60x18.png 60w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cPanel-Email-Email-Routing-100x30.png 100w, https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cPanel-Email-Email-Routing.png 1738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>3.<\/strong> From the <em>Domain <\/em>section, choose the domain you wish to apply these settings for. If you only have one domain, it will be selected automatically.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>4.<\/strong> From the <em>Configure Email Routing <\/em>section, you can see the four available options. Click on the small arrows for each one to read each description. The default and recommended setting is the first one, <em>Automatically Detect Configuration<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Automatically Detect Configuration<\/li>\n<li>Local Mail Exchanger<\/li>\n<li>Backup Mail Exchanger<\/li>\n<li>Remote Mail Exchanger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"whats-the-difference-between-local-backup-and-remote-mail-exchanger\">What&#8217;s the difference between Local, Backup, and Remote Mail Exchanger?<\/h3>\n<p>We strongly recommend you read about the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/difference-between-local-backup-and-remote-mail-exchanger-in-cpanel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">difference between Local, Backup, and Remote Mail Exchanger<\/a> <\/strong>before modifying the default Email routing setting.<\/p>\n<p>It is essential to understand what each of these options does and choose the right one. Otherwise, you risk disrupting your domain\u2019s Email communication.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>5.<\/strong> Choose the desired routing option from the list and click on <em>Change<\/em> to enable it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you still have questions, feel free to get in touch via our online chat support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, we will explain how to change Email routing in cPanel. What is Email Routing? Email routing is a feature in cPanel that allows you, as a domain owner, to choose how your incoming Email messages are processed, or routed, by the Email server. This can either be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[31],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1068","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-email-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7663,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1068\/revisions\/7663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}