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Email infrastructure of linux.com

According to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan (July 25, 2026), linux.com (Tranco rank #15,090) receives mail via Forward Email and sends through Mailgun, Amazon SES, Forward Email. Its observed DMARC policy is p=none (monitoring). Policy alone does not establish inbox or spam placement.

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Mailbox provider (MX)Forward Email
ESPs in SPFMailgun, Amazon SES, Forward Email
SaaS senders in SPFnone detected
DMARC policyp=none
DMARC recordv=DMARC1; p=none; pct=100; rua=mailto:dmarc-64f149e66fcb8c2f30e59c11@forwardemail.net;
Tranco rank#15,090
Snapshot2026-07-25 (updated daily)

How to interpret these observations

MX identifies the observed inbound mailbox or gateway. SPF includes identify services authorised to send for the domain. DMARC shows the published authentication policy. The dataset currently contains 3 populated signal groups for this page.

Observed deliverability context: based on the available observations, this page describes DNS configuration only. It does not represent a complete audit of linux.com and does not prove that a particular message reaches the inbox or spam folder.

Frequently asked questions

What email provider does linux.com use?

linux.com uses Forward Email for inbound mail (detected from its primary MX record) as of July 25, 2026, per Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan.

What ESP does linux.com use?

linux.com authorises Mailgun, Amazon SES, Forward Email in its SPF record as of July 25, 2026.

Does linux.com enforce DMARC?

No — linux.com publishes p=none, which only monitors and does not block spoofing (as of July 25, 2026).

How linux.com compares

Same daily dataset, three views: how its mailbox provider is trending, how strict DMARC is at its position in the list, and where its own policy sits among all DMARC publishers in the dataset.

DMARC enforced by list position

Policy maturity of all DMARC publishers

SPF diagnostics

The two ways an SPF record silently stops working. Counted from the published record; include chains are resolved one level deep, so the lookup count is a lower bound.

5DNS lookups — 5 left before the limit of 10
~allsoft fail — the common conservative default
156 Brecord length · mixed mechanisms

Modern mail security across the dataset

Adoption of the records that go beyond SPF and DMARC. Shown for the whole snapshot — per-domain detail lives on the security posture report.

0.00%publish MTA-STS
0.00%publish TLS-RPT
0.00%publish BIMI

Reverse DNS of the mail host

The MX hostname resolved to its addresses, and those addresses resolved back. Missing or mismatched reverse DNS is one of the few DNS-visible causes of outright rejection.

Where linux.com stands

The same snapshot cut by zone, by list position and by how alive the published policies are.

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