{"id":1225,"date":"2020-09-14T07:29:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T07:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2020\/09\/14\/4443671-how-to-manage-mx-records-in-hostinger-cpanel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:14","slug":"4443671-how-to-manage-mx-records-in-hostinger-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4443671-how-to-manage-mx-records-in-hostinger-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Manage MX Records in Hostinger cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">You can easily manage MX records in the <b>Zone Editor<\/b> section, which can be found in your control panel. <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a href=\"\/support\/4469075-how-to-log-in-to-cpanel\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Log in to your cPanel<\/a><\/b> and head to <b>Domains<\/b> &rarr; <b>Zone Editor<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/bbdf01e5-6514-4394-a4f7-1483e5591174.jpg\" alt=\"The cPanel Domains section sowing how to access the Zone Editor\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Next, click on the button <b>+ MX RECORD<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/2052556c-3f95-432e-ad51-121e1c233f17.jpg\" alt=\"The Domain list on Zone Editor showing how to add an MX record\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Enter the required values given by your <b>email provider<\/b>. For example, to use your <b>cPanel email<\/b>, they are the following:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-table-container\">\n<table role=\"presentation\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80\">\n<p class=\"intercom-align-center no-margin\"><b>Priority<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80\">\n<p class=\"intercom-align-center no-margin\"><b>Destination<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p class=\"intercom-align-center no-margin\">0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p class=\"intercom-align-center no-margin\">your domain name<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Finally, click on <b>Add An MX Record<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/1e9c471c-756d-4789-88d9-ac44edbc206d.jpg\" alt=\"The popup window to enter priority and destination values for a new MX record\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_535ca009d5\">Edit or Delete MX Records<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">To edit or remove existing MX records, access the <b>Zone Editor<\/b> section and find the following <b>Modify<\/b> and <b>Delete <\/b>buttons:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/2278eaa4-d7ef-4168-8564-6d25eea6f471.jpg\" alt=\"The Zone Editor showing how to edit or delete a record\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">After making any changes to your domain&rsquo;s DNS zone, <b><a href=\"\/support\/4146975-what-is-dns-propagation\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">DNS propagation<\/a> <\/b>starts; give it some time to complete, and your email service will be up and running soon<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding, editing and deleting MX records at Hostinger via cPanel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dns-cpanel"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4443671-how-to-manage-mx-records-in-hostinger-cpanel\/","default":1},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/4443671-comment-gerer-des-enregistrements-mx-dans-hostinger-cpanel\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/4443671-cara-mengelola-catatan-mx-di-cpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/4443671-como-adicionar-e-remover-registros-mx-no-hostinger-cpanel\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}