Any hosting plan with cPanel comes with a possibility to create email accounts linked with your domain name. Follow the instruction below to check all required HostBrook (or GoDaddy) account settings for cPanel emails. It prevents getting your emails in the spam boxes of any mail servers/clients, like Microsoft, Gmail, etc.
Go to your account - "My Products"
Click the link "DNS" at the right of the domain you need the email:
At the new page opens check five records that need to be at the list (see the image below):
Description:
The value of the record MX needs to be mail.{yourdomain.tld}
Please check carefully, only ONE record "MX" must to be at the list.
The value of the record A is the IP address of your shared server. To find it, go to cPanel and take a look tab "GENERAL INFORMATION".
The value of the SPF TXT record to be:
v=spf1 a mx include:secureserver.net ~all
Read more and generate your own SPF Records you can here
The value of the _dmarc TXT record to be:
v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; rua=mailto:aggregate@reports.email; ruf=mailto:forensic@reports.email; sp=reject;
where:
aggregate@reports.email - Replace with your email for aggregate reports;
forensic@reports.email - Replace with your email for forensic reports.
Read more and generate your own DMARC Records you can here.
Go to your account - "My Products"
Hit the button "Manage" at the right of the hosting plan your domain linked with:
At the new page opens hit the button "cPanel Admin":
At the cPanel find tab "EMAIL" and click the link "Email Routing":
Set Email Routing to "Local Mail Exchanger" and hit the button "Change":
To find POP3, IMAP and SMTP settings of cPanel email you have to:
At the cPanel find tab "EMAIL" and click the link "Email Accounts":
Hit the button "Connect Devices" at the right of your email account:
Use Secure SSL/TLS Settings for your mail client:
