{"id":17428,"date":"2024-05-22T15:26:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostvento.com\/kb\/web-hosting\/what-is-local-backup-and-remote-mail-exchanger-in-cpanel\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T06:27:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T06:27:49","slug":"what-is-local-backup-and-remote-mail-exchanger-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/docs\/hosting-faqs\/what-is-local-backup-and-remote-mail-exchanger-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Local, Backup, and Remote Mail Exchanger in cPanel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The MX Entry for a domain in cPanel has choices for a remote mail exchanger and local backup. The server can now handle your incoming emails with this information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meaning of separate options is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is recommended to select the option&nbsp;<strong>\u201cAutomatically Detect Configuration\u201d<\/strong>, if you have a particular setup that needs to be openly displayed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Local Mail Exchanger:<\/strong>&nbsp;It manages all mails sent from the server to this domain locally; i.e. \u2013 it delivers them to the mailbox located on the server instead of remote mail service.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Backup Mail Exchanger:<\/strong>&nbsp;It manages all emails like a remote mail exchanger, except in the case, the remote service is unreachable. If that\u2019s the case, it manages the mails similar to a local mail exchanger. (For example, if Office 365 is the mail service for your domain, then it sends the emails to Office 365\u2019s servers similar to the remote mail exchanger. If for any reason, Office 365\u2019s servers aren\u2019t accessible then it delivers the mail locally, similar to the local mail exchanger option.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Remote Mail Exchanger:<\/strong>&nbsp;It manages all mails sent to your domain remotely; i.e. \u2013 delivers them to the mail service searched by the domain\u2019s MX record. (For example, if Office 365 is your mail service, it will deliver the emails to the mailbox on Office 365\u2019s servers rather than your local mailbox.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s it! You now know the difference between Local, Backup, and Remote Mail Exchanger in cPanel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hostvento.com\/kb\/web-hosting\/how-to-configure-and-access-additional-web-disk-accounts-in-cpanel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How to Configure and Access Additional Web Disk Accounts in cPanel?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MX Entry for a domain in cPanel has choices for a remote mail exchanger and local backup. The server can now handle your incoming emails with this information. The meaning of separate options is: That\u2019s it! You now know the difference between Local, Backup, and Remote Mail Exchanger in cPanel. How to Configure and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23377,"menu_order":799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-17428","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/17428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/17428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20596,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/17428\/revisions\/20596"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/23377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=17428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}