kaseytraeger Posted April 13, 2004 Posted April 13, 2004 I've got a very basic question that anyone with a minimum amount of knowledge may be able to answer. I'm having problems with my email, and I was rooting around in the Email Manager within cPanel. I noticed there is a section called "Modify MX Entry". I'm curious, so I click this link. On the next screen, I see this ... DNS File MX Entry Maintenance Current MX Entries kaseyscreations.com: kaseyscreations.com moocowenterprises.com: moocowenterprises.com pudgypuppy.com: pudgypuppy.com Can anyone explain what all this means? Thanks y'all!!! Quote
MikeJ Posted April 13, 2004 Posted April 13, 2004 MX is your mail exchanger. It's where your mail goes when someone attempts to send you email. When you send an email, say through your server (via SMTP), the mail system on that server does an MX lookup for the domain you are sending to to figure out where to send that mail (what server is handling mail for that domain). Same goes for when people send email to you. Since your website and email are all on the same server cPanel defaults to setting your MX to your domain. In your case, all three of those domains go to the same server, so it's essentially telling all mail for any of your 3 domains to go to the same server. Quote
kaseytraeger Posted April 13, 2004 Author Posted April 13, 2004 Thanks Mike! I appreciate the clarification (and education). Quote
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