Setting up email for cPanel created account dedicated server?

nrider321

• December 07, 2013 12:59

So have a dedicated server with Company A which through WHM/cPanel has created a new domain account domainnew.com and assigned it one of the extra ip available. Domain name domainnew.com registered with Company B (no hosting package)that now has its A record pointed to ip of newly created WHM account. So if I have got the domain to point to the server, how do I configure email to work..for example email@domainnew.com. I understand that through the new accounts cPanel you can create email addresses for the newly created domain accounts. However how does one actually configure that so it functions in the above current scenario? Do I need a seperate email hosting package somewhere and then configure that through the accounts WHM dns settings? Or do I use the domain registrars information..nameservers etc. and point the MX Records to the ip of new account on dedicated server? Any info would be greatly appreciated, Thanks.

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 10, 2013 12:48

  Hello :) You should setup name servers at the registrar using IP addresses associated with your cPanel server and then assign them to the domain name so you do not have to manually enter each DNS record at the registrar. Both of these steps are handled at the registrar of the domain name. On the cPanel server, you simply need to add the "A" records for your name servers. Once you complete these steps, your DNS entries are setup automatically in the DNS Zone on the cPanel server. Thank you.

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  nrider321

  • December 11, 2013 08:52

  Thank you for the reply. I got the domain pointing to server ip. Basically setup through whm the new domain name cpanel account. Checked the box to use the domain registrars nameservers which it automatically detected. Then I went to the domain registrar and changed the A record to point to the new cpanel account ip address. So that part is working. You are saying that I can also do the reverse which is set up private nameservers in whm and assigning the A records for both (ip addresses available). Then going to the domain registrar and changing the nameservers from theirs to the servers. I am still confused about the cpanel mail account in both scenarios. So in scenario one I would probably have to setup the MX record at registrar correct? Then what ever cpanel email account I setup should send and receive email, provided email name matched mx record name? Scenario two I would not have to worry about MX record because registrar would be pointing to my nameservers anyways so whatever cpanel email account was created should work automatically? Is this correct. Anymore information would be great, Thanks.

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 11, 2013 15:45

  [quote="nrider321, post: 1526691">I am still confused about the cpanel mail account in both scenarios. So in scenario one I would probably have to setup the MX record at registrar correct? Then what ever cpanel email account I setup should send and receive email, provided email name matched mx record name? Scenario two I would not have to worry about MX record because registrar would be pointing to my nameservers anyways so whatever cpanel email account was created should work automatically? Is this correct. Anymore information would be great,
  Yes, both of these scenarios are accurate. Thank you.

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