{"id":1868,"date":"2021-10-27T13:16:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T07:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2022-01-22T16:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T10:51:57","slug":"using-an-external-mail-server-in-direct-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/using-an-external-mail-server-in-direct-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Using an external Mail server in direct admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you wish to use a remote Mailserver, a few changes will need to be made.<\/p>\n<p>1) Go to User Panel -&gt; domain.com -&gt; MX Records<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Diect-admin-Mx-record.png\" alt=\"mail server\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1869\" width=\"980\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Diect-admin-Mx-record.png 980w, https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Diect-admin-Mx-record-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Diect-admin-Mx-record-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There should be an option for \"Local Mail Server\". Uncheck that option.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/local-options.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1870\" width=\"1340\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/local-options.png 1340w, https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/local-options-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/local-options-1024x432.png 1024w, https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/local-options-768x324.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1340px) 100vw, 1340px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2) You'll need to change the MX dns record to point to the external mailserver. Remove the \"mail\" MX record and add \"other.domain.com.\" as the new MX record where that is the <a  href=\"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/easy-way-to-optimize-the-wordpress-data-base\/\" title=\"domain\" alt=\"domain\">domain<\/a> of the other server.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not have the MX Records menu in your DirectAdmin <a  href=\"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-zabbix-on-centos\/\" title=\"User\" alt=\"User\">User<\/a> Level login, then ask your hosting provider to enable the DNS <a  href=\"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/your-ip-is-blacklisted-when-try-to-login-direct-admin\/\" title=\"Control option\" alt=\"Control option\">Control option<\/a> for your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wish to use a remote Mailserver, a few changes will need to be made. 1) Go to User Panel -&gt; domain.com -&gt; MX Records &nbsp; There should be an option for &#8220;Local Mail Server&#8221;. Uncheck that option. 2) You&#8217;ll need to change the MX dns record to point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,3,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-webhosting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Direct-admin.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa2YU7-u8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coimbatorewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}