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Email Routing

Panelica 1.0.375 Verified 2026-07-23 Email

Email Routing is a diagnostic overview: which MX records your domains publish, whether the world can see them, and which forwarders are redirecting mail. It aggregates data that lives elsewhere (DNS and Forwarders) into one mail-shaped view.

Panel locationEmail → Email Routinghttps://YOUR-SERVER-IP:8443/email/routing

MX Records

The first tab collects the MX records of every domain you can see: domain, target mail server, priority and TTL. Editing happens in the DNS manager (the Manage DNS button takes you there); this view is for checking, not changing.

The Verify button on each row is the useful part: it queries public DNS (Google's resolver) from your browser for the domain's MX records and tells you plainly whether the record has propagated to the outside world, listing exactly what public DNS returns. A domain can look perfect in your own zone file and still be invisible publicly (propagation delay, wrong registrar delegation); Verify catches that difference.

Healthy MX for a Panelica-hosted domain: one MX record, priority 10, pointing at mail.yourdomain.com, which resolves to this server's IP. The DNS zone templates create exactly this when a domain is added.
Verify talks to dns.google directly from your browser, so it reflects true public visibility rather than your server's own resolver cache. On a network that blocks DNS-over-HTTPS, the check will not run; the records themselves are unaffected.

Forwarders

The second tab lists your forwarders with their destinations and an enable/disable toggle that applies instantly, plus delete with confirmation. Creating and editing forwarders happens on the dedicated Forwarders page; the buttons here take you across.

What this page is not

There is no cPanel-style local/backup/remote mail exchanger switch here: Panelica serves mail for a domain when the domain has mailboxes, and stops advertising it to Postfix when it has none. To host a domain's web on this server but its mail elsewhere, simply create no mailboxes for it and point its MX records at the external provider in the DNS manager.

Access

Behind the email license feature and a ROOT/ADMIN page by default; domain and record visibility follows the roles and permissions chain, and hidden domains are excluded.

Panelica Documentation · Written and verified against the live panel. · Last verified 2026-07-23 on Panelica 1.0.375