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Buffer

buffer.com
🏆Rank #4,414 🏷 Marketing & Agencies 🇺🇸United States

Buffer uses Customer.io as their primary email service provider. They rank #4,414 in the Tranco list of most-popular domains. Email goes out from 2 different subdomains. Their email authentication setup is solid (score 85/100).

Marketing ESPCustomer.io
Total observations7
Active days5
Avg per active day1.4
Last activity📬 Active · yesterday
Cadence~every 2 weeks
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Email setup 85/100

Authentication signals observed in this brand's emails. SPF, DKIM and DMARC are the standard sender-authentication stack — see the DMARC policy below for whether spoofing is actually blocked or just monitored. One-click unsubscribe meets Google & Yahoo's bulk-sender requirements.

Strong email setup
Authentication is in good shape — SPF, DKIM, and DMARC enforcement all configured.
85/100
SPF
pass
DKIM
pass
DMARC
pass (reject)
BIMI
none
Unsubscribe
one-click
SPF lookups 4/10

SPF / DKIM / DMARC above reflect the last 3 emails we've observed. DMARC policy is read live from DNS.

Authentication

DMARC reports sent to Postmark DMARC. Policy p=reject means receivers actively block or quarantine spoofed mail.

SPF alignment: all 7 observed emails use a return-path aligned with buffer.com (cio51677.buffermail.com, cio51677.buffer.com). SPF authenticates the visible From — supports DMARC directly.

DKIM alignment: all 5 observed emails sign with a domain aligned with buffer.com (cio51677.buffermail.com, cio51677.buffer.com). DKIM authenticates the visible From — supports DMARC directly.

Transport & deliverability

Delivery: fast — 100% of emails in the last 7 days arrive in under 10 seconds (across 2 sends).

Other ESPs detected

Brands often use multiple ESPs (e.g. one for marketing, another for transactional/notifications).

None — only the primary ESP(s) shown above

Confirmed senders

ESPs we've seen sending email for this brand. Green = confirmed by SPF, sender IP rDNS, or known infra pairing (label shows the source). Grey = observed but not yet confirmed by SPF or PTR.

Customer.io ✓ via Mailgun

Other SPF authorizations

ESPs this brand has authorized in their SPF record. We confirm them with a green ✓ only after seeing recurring use (3+ emails across 2+ days). Until then they stay here — either we haven't observed any email yet, or we've seen a handful but not enough to call them a regular sender for the brand.

Google Workspace Mailgun SendGrid

Probed: buffer.com, cio51677.buffermail.com, cio51677.buffer.com, buffermail.com

Where emails landed (Gmail)

Folder distribution across all emails from this brand observed in Gmail inboxes. High inbox % = good deliverability; spam appearances are the headline signal.

FolderCountShare
inbox 7 100.0%

Placement by ESP

Which ESP's emails are landing where. Sorted by spam % so problem senders surface first. Brands using one ESP for marketing and another for transactional often see very different placement profiles per ESP. Per-ESP folder data only started being captured recently — counts here may be smaller than the total above until backfill catches up.

ESP Emails Placement Inbox % Tabs % Spam %
Customer.io 7
100.0% 0.0% 0.0%

ESP activity over time

Jun 9 – Jun 29, 2026 · 4 days with sends

Daily observations per ESP. Brands often run multiple ESPs concurrently — marketing on one, transactional on another — so this chart shows usage rather than switches.

2 0 Customer.io: 2 (2026-06-09)2Customer.io: 1 (2026-06-22)1Customer.io: 1 (2026-06-27)1Customer.io: 1 (2026-06-29)106/0906/1206/1506/1806/2106/2406/2706/29
Customer.io

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Sending IPs

IP addresses buffer.com has been observed sending from, and where their mail landed in Gmail.

IPHostnameObsPlacementReputation
159.112.243.33 v533.v5be21903.use4.send.mailgun.net 1 1 Check →
159.112.243.81 v581.v5be21903.use4.send.mailgun.net 1 1 Check →

Sending domains

DomainESPs detectedDelivery (7d)
buffermail.comCustomer.io 5
buffer.comCustomer.io 2