According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Forcepoint MailControl is the email service provider (ESP) for 464 domains — 0.08% of 617,702 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Forcepoint MailControl is a cloud-based email security and filtering platform operated by Forcepoint. It sits in the email gateway layer, scanning inbound and outbound mail for threats, enforcing compliance policies, and filtering spam and malware, typically deployed as a supplementary layer alongside a primary mail platform such as Microsoft 365.
Forcepoint MailControl's infrastructure footprint matters for both senders and recipients. The platform predominantly serves smaller and mid-market organisations globally, not the largest brands. For senders, this means an extra filtering layer — if Forcepoint's policies flag your message, it may be quarantined or rejected despite strong authentication. For recipients, understanding Forcepoint's configuration and quarantine procedures is critical to recover legitimate mail that might otherwise disappear.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 4 | 0.9% |
| Top 100,000 | 79 | 17.0% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 355 | 76.5% |
| Unranked | 26 | 5.6% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 150 | 32.3% | |
| .co.uk | 65 | 14.0% | |
| .org | 29 | 6.2% | |
| .it | 26 | 5.6% | |
| .de | 23 | 5.0% | |
| .gov.uk | 20 | 4.3% | |
| .fr | 19 | 4.1% | |
| .org.uk | 13 | 2.8% | |
| .co.il | 9 | 1.9% | |
| .com.br | 8 | 1.7% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 464 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Forcepoint MailControl users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 177 | 38.1% |
| Mailbox | Unknown / Other | 151 | 32.5% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 38 | 8.2% |
| Mailbox | Mimecast | 26 | 5.6% |
| Mailbox | Proofpoint | 24 | 5.2% |
| Mailbox | Cisco IronPort | 10 | 2.2% |
| ESP | Amazon SES | 63 | 13.6% |
| ESP | SendGrid (Twilio) | 54 | 11.6% |
| ESP | Salesforce | 50 | 10.8% |
| ESP | Zendesk | 48 | 10.3% |
Forcepoint MailControl operates as a mail gateway: all inbound and outbound email passes through its scanning infrastructure before reaching the final recipient. When you send to an organisation using Forcepoint, your message encounters Forcepoint's content rules, policy filters, and threat detection independently of the recipient's primary email system. If Forcepoint quarantines or rejects your message based on content, policy, or reputation checks, no amount of SPF alignment or DKIM signing will override the decision. Senders experiencing unexplained delivery failures to Forcepoint-protected recipients should investigate whether Forcepoint's gateway filtering—customised per customer—is the bottleneck, rather than assuming sender reputation or authentication is the root cause.
See the full Forcepoint MailControl data page (KPI cards, trend, sample domains) →
Testing against a generic Forcepoint instance can surface common gateway filtering issues, but each customer configures Forcepoint independently, making exact replication impossible. Prioritise strong authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), avoid spam-trigger content, and ask recipients directly if mail disappears.
464 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Forcepoint MailControl as their email service provider (ESP) as of July 13, 2026 (0.08% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Forcepoint MailControl accounts for 0.08% of SPF-publishing domains in the top 1M. Whether you should seed a test mailbox there depends on how much of your audience it represents — the co-usage table above shows the services it appears alongside most.
Forcepoint MailControl's largest TLD is .com (32.3% of its domains); it appears across 61 TLDs in total.