What is an MX record ?
Mail Exchange (MX) records are DNS records that are necessary for delivering email to your address.
The MX record indicates how email messages should be routed in accordance with the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP, the standard protocol for all email). Like CNAME records, an MX record must always point to another domain.
Example of an MX-record:
- Domain: akhileshmittal.in
- Mail exchanger: mail.akhilehsmittal.com
- Priority: 10
All emails sent to recipient@ akhilehsmittal.com, willl be sent to the mail server mail. akhilehsmittal.com with the IP address 11.22.33.444.
Another Example of an MX-record:
| example.com | record type: | priority: | value: | TTL |
| @ | MX | 1 | mail1.example.com | 14400 |
| @ | MX | 5 | mail2.example.com | 14400 |
Who controls my MX records ?
Your MX records are controlled at the company where your Nameservers are pointed. If your domain is using hosting nameservers (you can check this at web.hosting.com), then all DNS changes (including custom MX records) are made in your hosting panel.
If your domain is not using hosting nameservers, all DNS changes (including custom MX records) must be done at the company that hosts your nameservers. If you want to use regular hosting-hosted mail service with a domain using non-hosting nameservers, you can set up custom mail DNS records at your outside DNS provider using the mail DNS information from your hosting panel.
How do I create an MX record?
An MX (Mail Exchange) record tells a sending mail server where to deliver email that is sent to your (sub)domain. By default, this is set to the one.in servers, but you can change them to other external servers.
If you have a web hosting subscription with us, then you would only change the MX records if you want to receive your email through another provider, for example, Google.
Create an MX record on your domain
- Log into the com control panel.
- Click DNS settingson the Advanced settings
- Go to DNS records.
- Under create new record, click MX.
- Enter the following details:
– Leave the hostname empty, or enter a subdomain.
– The mail server from your preferred email provider.
– Optionally enter a TTL, or leave it empty to default to 3600 seconds.
– Enter a priority, normally 1,5, 20,30 etc. The lower the number, the higher the priority. - Click Create record to save your settings.