This article provides a step-by-step guide to confirm email delivery using cPanel. By tracking your email delivery, you can ensure that your messages are being sent and received correctly.
Prerequisites
- Access to cPanel with valid login credentials.
- Created email accounts that you want to monitor.
- Basic understanding of email delivery concepts.
Steps to Confirm Email Delivery
- Log in to cPanel: Use your credentials to access your cPanel dashboard.
- Navigate to Email Section:
Scroll down to the Email section.
- Select Track Delivery:
Click on Track Delivery to review the delivery route of your emails.
- Filter Delivery Records:
To refine your results, select any of the following check-boxes:
- Show Successes
- Show Deferred
- Show Failures
- Show In-Progress
- Review Delivery Records:
The table displays the 250 most recent messages sent to and from your cPanel account's mailboxes, including delivery successes and failures.
- Ensure Email Address Exists:
Before sending emails, verify that the recipient's email address is created and active.
- Consider Delivery Time:
Note that emails are routed through Sendgrid, which may result in a delivery time of 5-10 minutes.
Additional Tools
For further analysis, you can use Google's free header analyzer tool available at Google Header Analyzer.
To use the tool, copy the email header and paste it into the analyzer, then click the Analyze button. This will show you the journey of the message through various Mail Transfer Agents and the time spent at each node.
Conclusion
By following these steps, you can effectively track and confirm the delivery of your emails in cPanel, ensuring that your communication is reliable and timely.
