External domain and local mailserver with cPanel

[marcju11]

Hello,

I have an external domain that I cannot control except for the the MX records and I have a server with cPanel/whm. I would like to create an email address with this domain on my cPanel/whm server. I think I have to create an MX record pointing to my cPanel/whm server. However... how I configure cPanel/whm with this external domain ?

Thank you.

 

[ThinIce]

This is easy enough - you can simply create the account for the domain on your cPanel server if you are going to be pointing the MX record at your system. Note that you'll need to also create dns records for things like spf, dkim, autoconfig etc on the remote dns system if you want to use them

 

[marcju11]

I thought WHM was checking that the DNS of the domain was pointing to the cPanel Server. If not.. it's indeed easy. However, what's an autoconfig record ?

Thank you.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

Yes, you can simply create the account on the cPanel server like you normally would. The domain name does not have to point to the cPanel server unless it's a parked or addon domain name. In those cases, you can temporarily disable the following option under the "Domains" tab in Tweak Settings:

"Allow Remote Domains"

The "autoconfig" and "autodiscover" records are not required. You can see their purpose at:

cPanel - Autodiscover

Thank you.