cPanel Tutorial: Paper Lantern Walkthrough
I. How To Log In To cPanel
II. How To Create an Email Account in cPanel
III. How To Set Your Default Address in cPanel
IV. How To Set up an Autoresponder in cPanel
V. How To Set up Email Forwarding in cPanel
VI. How To Set up Email Filters in cPanel
VII. How To Enable Spam Protection in cPanel
VIII. How To Add an MX Entry in cPanel
IX. How To Use Webmail from Within cPanel
X. How To Change Your cPanel Password
XI. How To Update Your Contact Information in cPanel
XII. How To Change Your cPanel Theme
XIII. How To Change the Primary Language in cPanel
XIV. How To Add a Record With the DNS Zone Editor in cPanel
XV. How To Back up Your Website in cPanel
XVI. How To Use the Disk Space Usage Tool in cPanel
XVII. How To Create Additional FTP Accounts in cPanel
XVIII. How To Password Protect a Directory in cPanel
XIX. How To Use the IP Blocker in cPanel
XX. How To Set up Hotlink Protection in cPanel
XXI. How To Create a Subdomain in cPanel
XXII. How To Create an Addon Domain in cPanel
XXIII. How To Create a Domain Alias in cPanel
XXIV. How To Set up Domain Redirects in cPanel
XXV. How To Create a MySQL Database in cPanel
XXVI. How To Use the Index Manager in cPanel
XXVII. How To Create Custom Error Pages in cPanel
XXVIII. How To Set up a Cron Job in cPanel
Note: Video versions of the articles in this tutorial series are available on our Support Tutorials page.
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.
Now let’s learn how to add an MX entry.
Click the MX Entry icon.
Setting a custom MX entry is useful if you want your email handled by another server, or if you want to setup a backup email server.
Enter a priority number for the new MX record: the lower priority numbers will be tried first, followed by higher numbers.
Then enter the new MX entry.
Click "Add New Record".
That’s it! The new MX record has been added.
So in this case, the default mybiz1234.com mail server will be tried first because it has a priority of 0 …
… followed by the new email server mx1.myexchange.com, because its priority number is 1.