{"id":1945,"date":"2021-06-01T15:18:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T12:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2022-05-18T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:28:09","slug":"dns-management-how-to-edit-mx-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/dns-management-how-to-edit-mx-records\/","title":{"rendered":"DNS Management – How To Edit MX Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>MX record<\/b><\/a> helps you <\/span>specify the incoming mail server<\/b> that\u2019ll receive your email messages. It helps users prepare for mail server failures.\u00a0 You could use the record to designate their backup servers, enabling SMTP servers to route emails through them when <\/span>the default server fails.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Businesses <\/span>relying on emails <\/b>for mission-critical processes often use the MX record to instruct SMTP servers to share their email loads between their incoming servers to <\/span>avoid overwhelming the primary server.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

With an MX record, you can<\/span> host your emails with another host<\/b> while hosting your domain with your current host, meaning you can use emails with domains hosted somewhere else.<\/span><\/p>\n

How do you edit your MX record after adding one to your DNS zone file?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

This article makes it effortless – let\u2019s get to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Step 1: Sign in to Your SPanel Account<\/b><\/h2>\n

Log in to your<\/span> SPanel account<\/b><\/a> control panel<\/span>.<\/b><\/p>\n

Use the URL<\/span> www.yourdomain.com\/spanel\/login<\/b> and replace <\/span>yourdomain.com<\/span><\/i> with your domain name.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Step 2: Open the DNS Manager<\/b><\/h2>\n

On the control panel, scroll to <\/span>DOMAINS<\/b> and click <\/span>DNS editor<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Step 3: Edit your MX Record<\/b><\/h2>\n

You\u2019ll see a list of all your DNS records under the <\/span>DNS EDITOR<\/b> section. Locate the <\/span>MX record<\/b> you wish to modify.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Click the <\/span>Edit<\/b> button, make your changes and click <\/span>Save<\/b> to apply.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Click the <\/span>Delete<\/b> button if you wish to remove the record permanently from your DNS zone.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s it.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you need assistance regarding editing your MX record on SPanel, kindly<\/span> contact our support<\/b><\/a> on email, phone and live chat, and we\u2019ll be happy to help.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The MX record helps you specify the incoming mail server that\u2019ll receive your email messages. It helps users prepare for mail server failures.\u00a0 You could use the record to designate their backup servers, enabling SMTP servers to route emails through them when the default server fails.\u00a0 Businesses relying on emails for mission-critical processes often use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4535,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/4535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}