Disabling local delivery, forcing the use of external DNS?

Remitur

• July 06, 2018 09:08

I have an issue: I'm migrating a number of email services, and would like to do as follows: 1 - I create the email service for anydomain.com on cpanel (in the meanwhile, email service for anydomain.com is running elsewhere, and anydomain.com is using external DNS servers, independent from my cpanel machine) 2 - in cPanel I create every email address needed, and send a notification email to each one (with the new password) using cpanel 3 - so the user receives in his email the message with the new password... 4 ... and few days later I can switch DNS, my cpanel server begin to work for anydomain.com, and every user has yet new password My issue: in step 2, my server send this message in local delivery, so the user doesn't get it... :-( The question is: how can I configure cpanel in order to use the MX specified in the external, authoritative DNS, even if cpanel consider it a local domain?!?!

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  cPanelLauren

  • July 06, 2018 17:59

  Hi @Remitur You may want to try removing the domain from /etc/localdomains so that the server does not look internally for the domain.

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  sparek-3

  • July 06, 2018 18:43

  And add the domain to /etc/remotedomains so that it doesn't automatically get added back to /etc/localdomains

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  Remitur

  • July 07, 2018 11:19

  Does exist any way to make it by default, without the need to to do so for every single domain?

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  cPanelLauren

  • July 09, 2018 13:19

  Hi @Remitur During account creation you can choose remote mail exchanger for the domain which would perform the same tasks. You can do this using the API WHM API 1 Functions - createacct - Developer Documentation - cPanel Documentation or at WHM>>Account Functions >>Create a New Account Thanks!

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