Overview
You can add a Domain Name System (DNS) record, especially a mail exchanger (MX) record for your mailbox to point your domain name to the address of the mail server. In this way, the mailbox can receive and send emails on behalf of the domain name.
Procedure
The following section describes how to add DNS records for your mailbox in the Alibaba Cloud DNS console.
Contact your email service provider to obtain the DNS records that you need to add for your mailbox. The DNS records provided in the following table are for reference only. The DNS records provided by your email service provider shall prevail.
Hostname
Record type
Priority
Record value
@
MX
5
mx1.qiye.aliyun.com
@
MX
10
mx2.qiye.aliyun.com
@
MX
15
mx3.qiye.aliyun.com
imap
CNAME
imap.qiye.aliyun.com
pop3
CNAME
pop.qiye.aliyun.com
smtp
CNAME
smtp.qiye.aliyun.com
mail
CNAME
qiye.aliyun.com
@
TXT
v=spf1 include:spf.qiye.aliyun.com -all
Log on to the Alibaba Cloud DNS console.
On the Authoritative Domain Names tab of the Domain Name Resolution page, find the domain name for which you want to add a DNS record, and click DNS Settings in the Actions column.
Click Add DNS Record. Separately configure an MX record, a canonical name (CNAME) record, and a text (TXT) record. The following figures show how to configure these records.
Configure an MX record
Configure a CNAME record
Configure a TXT record
