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Alibaba Mail

Alibaba Mail receives mail for 42 of 9,971 popular domains we measured in November 2026. Below: the records it needs and how its customers actually set them.

0.4%of measured domains42 of 9,971
0.6%of domains that receive mail
37use it as primary MX
33.3%customers enforce DMARCp=quarantine or p=reject

Correct setup for Alibaba Mail

MX records

HostPriority
mxw.mxhichina.com5
mxn.mxhichina.com10

SPF

Add include:spf.mxhichina.com to the domain's single SPF record, for example:

v=spf1 include:spf.mxhichina.com -all

14 of 42 Alibaba Mail customers in our sample (33.3%) have this include in their SPF record.

DMARC

Publish a TXT record at _dmarc.<domain> once SPF and DKIM pass for all mail you send, start with p=none and a reporting address, then move to p=quarantine or p=reject:

v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:dmarc-reports@<domain>

Provider site: https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/mail

How Alibaba Mail customers configure email security

42 customer domains in the sample (accent bars) compared with all 9,971 measured domains (grey bars).

SPF record 92.9%
all measured 75.7%
SPF -all (hard fail) 83.3%
all measured 37.7%
DMARC record 61.9%
all measured 68.0%
DMARC enforced 33.3%
all measured 50.9%
DMARC p=reject 11.9%
all measured 31.4%
MTA-STS 0.0%
all measured 3.0%

Well-known domains using Alibaba Mail

The highest-ranked domains in the sample whose MX records point to Alibaba Mail.

hicloudcam.comhichina.comaliyun.comaliexpress.comsamsungosp.comalipay.comcasinoplus.com.phmydramawave.comscmp.comgboxlab.comcrealitycloud.comjpush.cn

Check one yourself:

MX host names seen

Customer-specific parts replaced by <domain> and digits by <n>.

MX host patternDomains
mxw.mxhichina.com17
mxn.mxhichina.com17
mx<n>.qiye.aliyun.com12
mxdm-ap-southeast-<n>.aliyun.com6
mx<n>.mail.aliyun.com4
mx<n>.dm.aliyun.com3
mx<n>.sg.aliyun.com1

Source: our own scan of November 2026 (2026-11-11), 9,971 of the top 10,000 domains of the Tranco list Y895G that answered in DNS. Method and data.