Email Detective — ESP Tracker

Thetimes

thetimes.co.uk ↗

🏆Rank #2,628 🏷 Media 🇬🇧United Kingdom ✓ Inbox 92%

Thetimes uses Sailthru as their primary email service provider. They rank #2,628 in the Tranco list of most-popular domains. We've also observed sends via Adobe Campaign. Email goes out from 2 different subdomains. Their email authentication setup is solid (score 95/100).

Marketing ESPSailthru

Total observations36

Active days33

Avg per active day1.1

Last activity📬 Active · yesterday

Cadence~every 2 days

Other technologies

Non-ESP tools detected in this brand's emails. Independent of who sends — a brand can use any combination.

HTML builder

Beefree SDK

Email setup 95/100

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.

SPF / DKIM / DMARC above reflect the last 5 emails we've observed. DMARC policy is read live from DNS.

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

SPF alignment: all 29 observed emails use a return-path aligned with thetimes.co.uk (bounce.newsletter.thetimes.co.uk). SPF authenticates the visible From — supports DMARC directly.

DKIM alignment: all 24 observed emails sign with a domain aligned with thetimes.co.uk (newsletter.thetimes.co.uk, comms.thetimes.co.uk). DKIM authenticates the visible From — supports DMARC directly.

TLS: modern — 90% TLS 1.3 (across 10 sends).

Delivery (last 7 days): 67% under 10 seconds, 0% over 1 minute (across 3 sends).

Other ESPs detected

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

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.

Adobe Campaign ✓ confirmed Sailthru ✓ confirmed

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 Proofpoint

Probed: thetimes.co.uk, bounce.newsletter.thetimes.co.uk, newsletter.thetimes.co.uk, comms.thetimes.co.uk

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.

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.

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

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Sending IPs

IP addresses thetimes.co.uk has been observed sending from, and where their mail landed in Gmail.

Per-IP inbox / promotions / spam is being collected and will appear here as new emails are observed.

Sending domains