mxchecker - Utility script for detecting what MX routing logic will be used by cPanel for a given domain.
Version 1.00
mxchecker.pl [options] -domain=[fqdn.tld] -user=[cpuser]
- -domain
Specify which domain's MX records to reference.
- -user
Specify the cPanel account name that owns the domain.
- -verbose
optional Produce output similar to that rendered by WHM's "Edit MX Entry" interface.
- -debug
optional Output dumps of the various data structures that are used to produce the final output.
This option requires Data::Dumper to be in your Perl path.
- -help
optional Print a brief help masasge and exits.
- -man
optional Full documentation for this utility.
mxchecker.pl is designed as a simple CLI utility for custom MX applications on the cPanel web hosting platform.
It is a very close approximation of the read operations performed within WHM's "Edit MX Entry" interface.
Because cPanel allows an administrator to select auto when defining MX routing, it becomes problematic when a
non-cpanel process needs to determine if a given domain's MX will receive local or remote handling.
Normal output will be one of three values:
- local
Mail will be accepted and delivered locally.
- secondary
Mail will be accepted locally, but not delivered.
- remote
Mail will be remotely delivered.
If -verbose is passed then a human, English string will be output. This message string is equvalent to that produced in WHM's "Edit MX Entry" interface after saving the configuration.
If -debug is passed, Data::Dumper will be used to dump the data structures that are used to evaluate the MX routing logic.
If -domain or -user is omitted, the -help option, along with a note,
will be sent to STDERR and the script will exit(2).
No output will be send to STDOUT.
David Neimeyer <davidneimeyer@cpanel.net>
Copyright (c) 2011, cPanel, Inc. All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.
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