Sparkasse Emma SaaS sender
According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (September 12, 2026), Sparkasse Emma is the SaaS sender for 176 domains — 0.03% of 629,828 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Key facts
- 176 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Sparkasse Emma (0.03% of SPF-publishing domains).
- Snapshot date: 2026-09-12 — recomputed every day.
- Strongest TLD: .de (99.4% of its domains).
- Most co-used service: Unknown / Other.
- Directory category: SaaS sender.
Why Sparkasse Emma appears in this category
Sparkasse Emma — German banking customer email.
We classify it as a SaaS sender from include: mechanisms in the SPF record matching a maintained provider rule. This is infrastructure attribution from public DNS, not evidence of a direct contract or exclusive use.
Sparkasse Emma is an email delivery platform operated by Sparkasse, a German financial services organization. It provides cloud-based email infrastructure for transactional and marketing mail, primarily serving smaller and mid-sized organizations in the German-speaking regions.
When include:sparkasse-emma.de or similar appears in a domain's SPF record, that domain has delegated email sending to Sparkasse Emma's infrastructure. The platform's presence skews toward smaller websites rather than major global brands, concentrated in .de domains; it frequently appears alongside other third-party email services, indicating a multi-vendor approach to email infrastructure among that sender base.
Where Sparkasse Emma sits in the Tranco ranking
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 10,000 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Top 100,000 | 3 | 1.7% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 173 | 98.3% |
| Unranked | 0 | 0.0% |
Top-level domain split
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .de | 175 | 99.4% | |
| .com | 1 | 0.6% |
What Sparkasse Emma users also use
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 176 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Sparkasse Emma users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Unknown / Other | 173 | 98.3% |
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 1 | 0.6% |
| Mailbox | Mailbox.org | 1 | 0.6% |
SPF authentication and sender reputation
Sparkasse Emma publishes SPF include mechanisms (include:sparkasse-emma.de) that senders must add to their DNS policy. Receiving mail servers validate outbound email by confirming the sending IP against Sparkasse Emma's published SPF record. Because the platform serves a regional user base of smaller senders rather than global enterprises, its IP ranges accumulate less extensive sender-reputation history than major international providers — a factor that can introduce minor variance in reputation scoring but does not affect authentication compliance.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Sparkasse Emma and should I be concerned about it?
Sparkasse Emma is a German email platform used by many smaller organizations for sending mail. Its appearance in a sender's SPF record is normal authentication infrastructure; if you receive email from a sender using it, no action is needed on your end.
How many domains use Sparkasse Emma?
176 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Sparkasse Emma as their SaaS sender as of September 12, 2026 (0.03% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Is Sparkasse Emma common enough to affect email deliverability testing?
Sparkasse Emma accounts for 0.03% 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.
Which countries or TLDs use Sparkasse Emma most?
Sparkasse Emma's largest TLD is .de (99.4% of its domains); it appears across 2 TLDs in total.