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Allow an external domain to use cpanel's smtp?

mvandemar
My domain that I use for my primary email is hosted at Hostgator. Unfortunately various mailservers around the world, such as Yahoo and AOL, add HG's mail cluster ip's to their blacklists on a regular basis. This means that on most days I have at least 1 or 2 clients that I have issues communicating with. I also have a vps with whm/cpanel on it with it's own dedicated IP on a completely different host. Is there a way to tell cpanel to allow an external domain to send through smtp? Or, if I set up the domain on there on an email-only type account, and create a mail2.mydomain.com, and use that, will that screw anything else up? What would be the best way to configure something like this? Note that I only want to send, not receive, through the vps. Thanks. -Michael

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  • 24x7server
    Hello :), If your mail server IP's are getting blocked in anti-spam databases then you will have to update your mail server security. Please check following cPanel documentation and try to update it on your server. How to Prevent Email Abuse - cPanel Knowledge Base - cPanel Documentation If you want to setup remote server for the mail then create same cPanel account on your remote server and update your domain mx record with your VM IP, so that you can use your VM as mail server for your domain.
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  • mvandemar
    Hello :), If your mail server IP's are getting blocked in anti-spam databases then you will have to update your mail server security. Please check following cPanel documentation and try to update it on your server.
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  • dalem
    in your email client use an account on your VPS to send mail from (smpt login) no need to set up a domain for it (unless you have none that you control on your VPS)
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  • mvandemar
    in your email client use an account on your VPS to send mail from (smpt login) no need to set up a domain for it (unless you have none that you control on your VPS)

    So I wouldn't need to whitelist the domain that I am sending from? I could create an email@domain.com account, where domain.com is on the vps, and it would allow me to send email@someothedomain.com through it? -Michael
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  • dalem
    Yes it would work just fine as long as you we use one SMTP user/server for all of our domains add a additional spf record for the IP of the VPS to you DNS
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  • mvandemar
    Yes it would work just fine as long as you we use one SMTP user/server for all of our domains add a additional spf record for the IP of the VPS to you DNS

    It worked great, thanks! -Michael
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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello :) I am happy to see the solution offered to you was helpful. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.
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  • mvandemar
    It does work fine. The only thing I am not sure how to do now is set up dkim keys and have the server append them to the headers for that account, but I am working on it. I am not sure how necessary this is though. -Michael
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