{"id":463,"date":"2017-02-19T14:46:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=463"},"modified":"2020-08-09T01:39:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T01:39:40","slug":"difference-between-local-backup-and-remote-mail-exchanger-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/difference-between-local-backup-and-remote-mail-exchanger-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between Local, Backup, and Remote Mail Exchanger in cPanel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are options for the MX Entry for a domain in cPanel. Essentially, the option you choose tells cPanel how you would like the mail services for the domain handled.<\/p>\n<p>Mail Exchanger Options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unless you have a particular setup that needs these explicitly stated, the recommended option is \u201c<strong>Automatically Detect Configuration<\/strong>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Local Mail Exchanger<\/strong>: Handle all mail sent from the server to this domain locally; i.e. &#8211; deliver it to the mailbox that is on the server rather than remote mail service.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Backup Mail Exchanger<\/strong>: Handle all emails like a remote mail exchanger, unless the remote service is unreachable, in that case, handle it like a local mail exchanger. (For example, if you have Google as the mail service for the domain, then send the emails to Google&#8217;s servers like the remote mail exchanger. If for some reason Google&#8217;s servers are inaccessible, then deliver the mail locally, as in the local mail exchanger option.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Remote Mail Exchanger<\/strong>: Handle all mail sent to this domain remotely; i.e. &#8211; deliver it to the mail service determined by the domain&#8217;s MX record. (For example, if you have Google set up as your mail service, deliver the emails to the mailbox on Google&#8217;s servers rather than your local mailbox.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s it! Now you know what is the difference between Local, Backup, and Remote Mail Exchanger in cPanel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are options for the MX Entry for a domain in cPanel. Essentially, the option you choose tells cPanel how you would like the mail services for the domain handled. Mail Exchanger Options: Unless you have a particular setup that needs these explicitly stated, the recommended option is \u201cAutomatically Detect&#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":[47,48,132,133,134],"class_list":["post-463","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-email-faqs","ht_kb_tag-backup","ht_kb_tag-cpanel","ht_kb_tag-local","ht_kb_tag-mail-exchanger","ht_kb_tag-remote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/463","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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/463\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}