Remote SMTP settings configuration in cPanel is required when you want to host your emails separately from the website. In this case some modifications should be done on the side of both local and remote mail server. In this article we will cover cPanel settings for correct remote SMTP functionality.
Local server config
Configure Remote SMTP IPs
- Login to the WHM
- Locate “Configure Remote Service IPs” under “IP Functions“
- Enter IP of your remote SMTP server. Save.
Email Routing Configuration
The next step is to tell your local server that emails will be routed through the remote SMTP server. In order to do this, find “DNS Functions” > “Email Routing Configuration“
Select your domain name.
Choose “Remote Mail Exchanger”.
This will ensure that local server will not be serving emails even if some mail traffic comes. You need to keep in mind that within cPanel/WHM you have the DNS server running. And when traffic is routed to the server via “A” record, without above setting active, you can be surprised that mail traffic is still routed via local server despite DNS settings pointing emails to the remote server.
Remote SMTP server settings
Disable SMTP restrictions on both servers to ensure that server allows outgoing SMTP connections besides system users like root and mailman.
Find “Security Center” > “SMTP Restrictions“.
Disable.
If you run an older version of cPanel/WHM, then you can find SMTP Restrictions settings within “Tweak Settings” > “Mail”.
After applying the above configuration, you can go ahead and use the remote SMTP hostname within your website software. We recommend simply transferring the whole website account (using cPanel/WHM Transfer Tool) to the mail server in order to have all your email account intact.
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