The MX-record, also called the Mail Exchanger Record, is the part of the Domain Name System (DNS) that provides information about the mail server that your domain name uses.
You can optionally specify multiple MX-records, each with a different priority.
Follow these steps in the control panel to set an MX-record:
- Go to “My products”> “DNS & forwarding management”> Click on the “Manage DNS” button to the right of your domain name.
- Scroll down to “MX-records”. If the "MX-records" section is not present, you will need to add it as a new record by selecting "MX" in the dropdown at the top and click "Add".
- To change an existing MX-record, choose the host that you want to change and click on “Edit”. Enter the new mail exchanger host and click on “Submit”.
You can add a new MX-record by selecting MX out of the dropdown clicking on “Add” at the top. The left text field leaves you blank unless you want to set the e-mail traffic of a subdomain (advanced). Enter the destination, Time To Live (TTL) and priority as desired and click on “Submit”.
The changes are activated. Remember that this can take 1 to 4 hours. You can check the active records via: http://who.is/dns/