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Alibaba Cloud DNS:Configure DNS records for your mailbox

Last Updated:Feb 22, 2023

Overview

You can point a domain name to the address of the mail server to ensure that you can send and receive emails.

Prerequisites

Contact your mailbox provider to obtain the required DNS records.

Add DNS records

1. Contact your mailbox provider to obtain the required DNS records. The following table lists the DNS records that are required to be configured for Alibaba Mail.

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

2. Log on to the Alibaba Cloud DNS console

3. In the left-side navigation pane, click Manage DNS. On the Domains tab, click a domain name to go to the DNS Settings page. On the page that appears, click the Add Record button.

AddRecord button

4. Add the required DNS records and set parameters. The following figures show how to add an MX record, a CNAME record, and a TXT record.MX记录CNAME记录TXT记录