This topic describes how to transfer your email service to Alibaba Mail and the settings required after you enable the service.
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Step 1: Purchase a mailbox
To purchase a mailbox, see Alibaba Mail purchase process.
Step 2: Set the password for the administrator account
To set the password for the administrator account, see Reset the password for the postmaster administrator account.
Step 3: Create organizational structures, accounts, and mail groups
1. From the administrator console: See How do I create an employee account?.
2. Using Active Directory (AD) synchronization: See Alibaba Mail AD Synchronization & Authentication. For more details, contact the Alibaba Mail helpdesk.
Perform AD synchronization before you create any accounts in Alibaba Mail.
3. Using API synchronization: See 添加网页链接. To enable the API feature, contact the Alibaba Mail helpdesk.
4. Using DingTalk-Mail synchronization: See DingTalk-Mail binding.
You must switch your DNS resolution to Alibaba Cloud before you bind and synchronize with DingTalk-Mail. If you plan to migrate email, you must first create the accounts in the Alibaba Mail administrator console. You can bind and synchronize with DingTalk-Mail only after the email migration is complete and the DNS resolution is switched.
Step 4: Migrate email
1. Using the IMAP protocol (Recommended): See Mailbox Migration. Note: If you do not need to migrate email, you can skip to Step 6 to switch the DNS resolution.
2. Configure an IMAP client to upload local emails: See Migrate local email data using Outlook + IMAP or Migrate local email data using Foxmail + IMAP.
3. Seamless Exchange migration: For more information, contact the Alibaba Mail helpdesk.
Step 5: Check emails after migration
Compare the number of emails migrated to Alibaba Mail with the number in the original mailbox to verify that the migration is complete.
Step 6: Switch DNS resolution
If the domain name for your Alibaba Mail service was previously used with another email provider, you must delete or pause the existing DNS records. Then, add the DNS records for Alibaba Mail. For more information about DNS settings, see:
How to configure DNS records for an Alibaba Cloud (HiChina) domain name to use Alibaba Mail
How to configure DNS records for a domain name not from Alibaba Cloud (HiChina) to use Alibaba Mail
Step 7: Bind and synchronize with DingTalk-Mail
To bind with DingTalk-Mail and synchronize the address book, see DingTalk-Mail binding.
Step 8: Enable Alibaba Mail
To secure your mailbox accounts, review Alibaba Mail security features and enhance your security protection.
For information about Webmail features, see Alibaba Mail Help Documentation - For Employees.
For information about the domain administrator console features, see Alibaba Mail Help Documentation - For Administrators.
For third-party client configuration, see Client configuration.
To synchronize the organizational address book and calendar in the Outlook client, see Use the Outlook plug-in for two-way synchronization of the mailbox address book and calendar.
The Alibaba Mail client offers high compatibility and requires no configuration. You can log on directly with your Alibaba Mail address and password. Download the Alibaba Mail client.
To customize the enterprise logon page for your mailbox, see Interface customization.
To upload an SSL Certificate and access the Webmail service over HTTPS, see How do I upload an SSL Certificate?.
For SMTP mail delivery code examples, see SMTP mail delivery code example for Java and SMTP mail delivery code example for Python 3.6 and later.