cPanel API 1 Functions - Email::changemx

Description

This function modifies a mail exchanger's settings.

Warning:

cPanel API 1 is deprecatedDo not use this function. Instead, we strongly recommend that you use the following newer functions:

Examples 


 LiveAPI PHP Class

$cpanel = new CPANEL(); // Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
$edit_mx = $cpanel->api1('Email', 'changemx', array('example.com', 'mail.example.com', '15', 'local', 'mail.example.com', '45') ); // Call the function.

 LiveAPI Perl Module

my $cpliveapi = Cpanel::LiveAPI->new(); # Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
my $edit_mx = $cpliveapi->api1('Email', 'changemx', ['example.com', 'mail.example.com', '15', 'local', 'mail.example.com', '45'] ); # Call the function.

 cPanel Tag System (deprecated)

<cpanel Module="Email::changemx( $FORM('domain','exchange','preference','alwaysaccept','oldexchange','oldpreference') )">

 Command Line

cpapi1 --username=username Email changemx domain=example.com exchange=mail.example.com preference=15 alwaysaccept=local oldexchange=mail.example.com oldpreference=45

 Output (none)


This function does not return output.
 

Parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

Possible values

Example

 domain

 string

 Required

 The domain name.

 The mail exchanger's domain.

 example.com

 exchange

 string

 Required

 The mail exchanger's name.

 The mail exchanger's name, inname.example.com format, where example.com is the domain name.

 mail.example.com

 preference

 integer

 Required

 The mail exchanger's priority.

 An integer value.

 Note:

 It is common practice to set a priority value that is divisible by five.

 15

 alwaysaccept

 string

 The mail exchanger's type.

 If you do not specify a value, the system uses your current configuration to determine the best type to use.

  • local
  • secondary
  • backup
  • remote

 local

 oldexchange

 string

 The name of the mail exchanger to replace.

 If you do not specify a value, the system creates a new mail exchanger.

 The name of an existing mail exchanger on the server, inname.example.com format,  where example.com is the domain name.

 mail.example.com 

 oldpreference 

 integer 

 The mail exchanger's previous priority value.

 If the value for the oldexchangeparameter matches multiple MX entries, the system uses this value to determine  which MX entry to modify.

 The mail exchanger's previous priority value.

 45

 

Returns

This function does not return output.

 

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