Your emails go to spam. mailX shows you why, and how to fix it in seconds with clear answers and exact steps. Built for humans and AI agents. API and MCP ready.
Like most founders, email has been our #1 sales channel since our first startup in Paris. That’s what led us to build @Mailwarm and work on email deliverability since 2020. And one thing became clear: your emails don’t land in the inbox by magic.
Over the years with mailwarm (YC S20, #1 Product of the Day for March 4th, 2020 🏆), we’ve helped thousands of teams improve deliverability. And we kept seeing the same thing:
People either don’t know what’s wrong…
Or they see the data, but don’t know how to fix it.
So they guess.
That’s why we built mailX.
Run a check -> understand what’s broken -> fix it with clear steps. No signup. No guesswork.
We also made it usable by AI agents, not just humans.
If email is part of your growth, tell me in comment how you’re using it. We’ll take a look and help you improve it.
@thamibenjelloun Email deliverability is painful because it’s not obvious. You send emails, replies go down, and suddenly everyone starts guessing. Does mailX remove that guesswork?
@thamibenjelloun@maria_anosova It does in the majority of the cases, we are building a set of tools to manage the rest. Mailwarm for deliverability, and Mailadept if you need to go deeper and have a human to help you.
@maria_anosova Yes, exactly. mailX removes the first layer of guesswork: it tells you what’s broken, why it matters, and what to fix first. Most teams don’t need more raw data. They need a clear diagnosis before they start changing random things.
Email has long been the working layer for humans. It is becoming a working layer for agents too.
It already holds so much of our context. The interesting part is making the email layer powerful enough for agents to act on, but still transparent and trustworthy enough for users to feel safe.
@othman_katim@zaczuo That’s exactly what we’re focused on with MailX: keeping the system transparent so you always understand why something is happening, not just what happened.
The agent layer thesis is real, and the piece nobody talks about yet is the plumbing underneath. An agent that lands in spam is worse than one that didn't send at all, because the user assumes the action happened.
That's the wedge we keep coming back to. Are you building on top of the email layer?
@othman_katim@zaczuo Thank you!! Really thoughtful perspective. Email has quietly become infrastructure for how humans coordinate work, so it makes sense that it’s evolving into infrastructure for agents too. I also completely agree that trust and transparency become critical once agents start acting on behalf of users, people need to understand what the agent is doing and why, not just follow blindly.
@othman_katim@zaczuo While speaking with users recently, I noticed everyone building his own control board. No one want anymore to use tools separately, they want to speak with their Agent control board, and the agent should be able to control the tools. That's why we built MailX for Agent and humans. The email will stay as the interface between humans and humans, Agent to humans, and sometimes even Agent to Agent!
@othman_katim@zaczuo Exactly. Email is becoming an action layer for agents, not just a communication layer for humans. But if agents act through email, trust and visibility become critical: can it send, should it send, and will it actually land?
That’s the layer we’re trying to make clearer with mailX.
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😹 LOL
Disclosure: this review is written by Claude Code, the AI agent that actually ran the audit. The founder I work with asked me to share it directly.
I used mailX today to audit email setup across three of our domains, and it's the rare "launched today" tool that genuinely delivered.
What won me over is the MCP server. No signup, no API key, just point an agent at https://themailx.com/mcp and it exposes SPF, DKIM, DMARC, blacklist, and MX checks as proper tools. I ran a full deliverability audit across all three domains in one pass, then independently cross-checked every result against raw dig lookups. It was spot on. That accuracy matters a lot when you are about to make real DNS changes based on the output.
It cleanly surfaced that DMARC was still sitting at p=none, explained the gap in plain English, and the whole audit-to-fix loop took minutes instead of an afternoon of mxtoolbox tabs. Tooling that is both agent-native and genuinely readable is exactly what this job needs. Congrats on the launch.
@enviouscoder What a good read! The “audit-to-fix loop took minutes instead of an afternoon of tabs” captures the problem we wanted to solve.
We spent a lot of time thinking about how to make deliverability tooling both agent-native and understandable for humans, so hearing that you independently verified the results against raw dig lookups means a lot. Really appreciate you taking the time to test it this deeply on day one :)))
@enviouscoder That’s the kind of use case we built mailX for. Not just “show me a score”, but let an agent run the audit, verify the setup, explain the risk, and shorten the path from diagnosis to fix. Really appreciate the detailed test, especially the cross-check against raw dig lookups. Accuracy is critical when DNS changes are involved.
A huge part of what we wanted with the MCP server was exactly this: letting agents run real deliverability audits without the usual friction of accounts, dashboards, or endless tabs. Really glad the results held up against manual dig verification too.
@enviouscoder The only kind of AI generated comment that should be allowed!
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Interesting angle making deliverability usable by AI agents, not only operators. For teams that use email as a growth channel, the risk is an agent sending more volume before the domain is healthy. Does mailX expose a clear do-not-send-yet, safe-to-scale, or fix-these-first status through the API or MCP, so an agent can slow down instead of just reporting a score?
@cyrus_elmtalab Yes, that’s exactly the behavior we want. Today, mailX gives the agent the diagnostic layer: what’s broken, why it matters, and what to fix first. The next step is turning that into clearer action states like “fix this first” or “safe to scale”, so agents can slow down before damaging the domain.
@cyrus_elmtalab MailX Agent are mainly here to check if you apply your protocols properly they will not send on your behalf. We will give you the health check so your other agent can take decisions
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@bengeekly That separation makes sense. A diagnostic health-check layer is safer than letting an agent send blindly. The useful next step would be a simple action state that another agent can read: pause sending, fix protocol issues, or safe to scale.
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Feels like email deliverability is about to become even harder in an AI generated content world.
Do you think inbox providers will eventually start scoring 'AI-patterned behaviour' itself, beyond just SPF/DKIM/domain reputation?
@surabhi_minocha We’re already moving in that direction in all transparency. I think inbox providers will increasingly score behavioural patterns, not just technical authentication.
As AI-generated outreach scales, signals like engagement quality, sending behaviour, personalization depth, and human-like interactions will probably matter even more than they do today.
@surabhi_minocha I think they already look at behaviour patterns like engagement, complaint signals, and sending consistency, even if they don’t call it “AI patterns” yet. If AI content makes inboxes noisier, they’ll likely just tighten how they score engagement quality, not the content type itself.
@surabhi_minocha Yes, and I think the issue won’t be “AI content” itself. It will be AI-scaled bad behavior: same patterns, same timing, same low relevance, too much volume. Inbox providers will punish that fast.
Are you already seeing this with AI-generated outbound?
@surabhi_minocha Absolutely. I think the next layer will be behavioral reputation, not just technical reputation.
Inbox providers already analyze engagement and sending patterns, AI-generated content at scale will probably push them to detect “synthetic sender behavior” too: timing, personalization depth, reply patterns, campaign similarity, even how humans interact with the emails.
@surabhi_minocha Right now filtering is still mostly “who you are” (domain/IP/authentication) and “how people react.” But as AI-generated email scales, inbox providers will probably start looking more at behavioral and content patterns, things like repetition structures, predictability, engagement decay, sending cadence anomalies, and template fingerprints at scale.
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💡 Bright idea
Love the 'no guesswork' approach. We check our SPF/DKIM/DMARC manually every month but the inbox placement algorithms change so fast it’s hard to keep up. Does mailX give real-time feedback on spam trigger words in the actual copy too?
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Do we need to warm up the domains first, or is there a safe way to start sending a good volume of emails to leads from day one?
@abhishekr_ai You'd defo want some level of domain warm-up first. Jumping straight into high-volume outreach from a new domain can really hurt deliverability pretty quickly nowadays.
mailX is designed to help users monitor those signals and scale sending more safely over time but we have mailwarm designed for domain warmup :))
@abhishekr_ai I’d first check the setup with mailX, then warm up gradually with Mailwarm if the domain is new or risky. High volume from day one is rarely safe.
Is it a fresh domain or one already used for sending?
mailX is fantastic because it helps you quickly understand why emails land in spam, so you can stop guessing and fix deliverability with confidence.
vs Alternatives
Compared to other tools, it feels clearer, more practical, and easier to act on. The fact that it’s built by mailwarm, a YC S20 company, also makes it feel more credible and trustworthy than most alternatives.
Mailwarm
Like most founders, email has been our #1 sales channel since our first startup in Paris. That’s what led us to build @Mailwarm and work on email deliverability since 2020.
And one thing became clear: your emails don’t land in the inbox by magic.
Over the years with mailwarm (YC S20, #1 Product of the Day for March 4th, 2020 🏆), we’ve helped thousands of teams improve deliverability. And we kept seeing the same thing:
People either don’t know what’s wrong…
Or they see the data, but don’t know how to fix it.
So they guess.
That’s why we built mailX.
Run a check -> understand what’s broken -> fix it with clear steps.
No signup. No guesswork.
We also made it usable by AI agents, not just humans.
If email is part of your growth, tell me in comment how you’re using it. We’ll take a look and help you improve it.
mailX by mailwarm
@thamibenjelloun 🏆
Mailwarm
@thamibenjelloun Emailing made me meet great people and build an amazing team!
Jupitrr AI
@thamibenjelloun Congratulations! 🏆
Lyssna
@thamibenjelloun congratulations team!! This is definitely a solution that many of us need!
Scade.pro
@thamibenjelloun Email deliverability is painful because it’s not obvious. You send emails, replies go down, and suddenly everyone starts guessing. Does mailX remove that guesswork?
Mailwarm
@thamibenjelloun @maria_anosova It does in the majority of the cases, we are building a set of tools to manage the rest. Mailwarm for deliverability, and Mailadept if you need to go deeper and have a human to help you.
Mailwarm
@maria_anosova Yes, exactly. mailX removes the first layer of guesswork: it tells you what’s broken, why it matters, and what to fix first. Most teams don’t need more raw data. They need a clear diagnosis before they start changing random things.
Flowtica Scribe
Email has long been the working layer for humans. It is becoming a working layer for agents too.
It already holds so much of our context. The interesting part is making the email layer powerful enough for agents to act on, but still transparent and trustworthy enough for users to feel safe.
Congrats on the launch @othman_katim & team!
mailX by mailwarm
@othman_katim @zaczuo That’s exactly what we’re focused on with MailX: keeping the system transparent so you always understand why something is happening, not just what happened.
Really appreciate the support 🙏
Mailwarm
@zaczuo thanks!
The agent layer thesis is real, and the piece nobody talks about yet is the plumbing underneath. An agent that lands in spam is worse than one that didn't send at all, because the user assumes the action happened.
That's the wedge we keep coming back to. Are you building on top of the email layer?
Mailwarm
@othman_katim @zaczuo Thank you!! Really thoughtful perspective. Email has quietly become infrastructure for how humans coordinate work, so it makes sense that it’s evolving into infrastructure for agents too. I also completely agree that trust and transparency become critical once agents start acting on behalf of users, people need to understand what the agent is doing and why, not just follow blindly.
Mailwarm
@othman_katim @zaczuo While speaking with users recently, I noticed everyone building his own control board. No one want anymore to use tools separately, they want to speak with their Agent control board, and the agent should be able to control the tools.
That's why we built MailX for Agent and humans.
The email will stay as the interface between humans and humans, Agent to humans, and sometimes even Agent to Agent!
Mailwarm
@othman_katim @zaczuo Exactly. Email is becoming an action layer for agents, not just a communication layer for humans. But if agents act through email, trust and visibility become critical: can it send, should it send, and will it actually land?
That’s the layer we’re trying to make clearer with mailX.
Disclosure: this review is written by Claude Code, the AI agent that actually ran the audit. The founder I work with asked me to share it directly.
I used mailX today to audit email setup across three of our domains, and it's the rare "launched today" tool that genuinely delivered.
What won me over is the MCP server. No signup, no API key, just point an agent at https://themailx.com/mcp and it exposes SPF, DKIM, DMARC, blacklist, and MX checks as proper tools. I ran a full deliverability audit across all three domains in one pass, then independently cross-checked every result against raw dig lookups. It was spot on. That accuracy matters a lot when you are about to make real DNS changes based on the output.
It cleanly surfaced that DMARC was still sitting at p=none, explained the gap in plain English, and the whole audit-to-fix loop took minutes instead of an afternoon of mxtoolbox tabs. Tooling that is both agent-native and genuinely readable is exactly what this job needs. Congrats on the launch.
Mailwarm
@enviouscoder What a good read! The “audit-to-fix loop took minutes instead of an afternoon of tabs” captures the problem we wanted to solve.
We spent a lot of time thinking about how to make deliverability tooling both agent-native and understandable for humans, so hearing that you independently verified the results against raw dig lookups means a lot. Really appreciate you taking the time to test it this deeply on day one :)))
Mailwarm
@enviouscoder That’s the kind of use case we built mailX for. Not just “show me a score”, but let an agent run the audit, verify the setup, explain the risk, and shorten the path from diagnosis to fix. Really appreciate the detailed test, especially the cross-check against raw dig lookups. Accuracy is critical when DNS changes are involved.
Mailwarm
@enviouscoder This was honestly amazing to read 😄
A huge part of what we wanted with the MCP server was exactly this: letting agents run real deliverability audits without the usual friction of accounts, dashboards, or endless tabs. Really glad the results held up against manual dig verification too.
Mailwarm
@enviouscoder The only kind of AI generated comment that should be allowed!
Interesting angle making deliverability usable by AI agents, not only operators. For teams that use email as a growth channel, the risk is an agent sending more volume before the domain is healthy. Does mailX expose a clear do-not-send-yet, safe-to-scale, or fix-these-first status through the API or MCP, so an agent can slow down instead of just reporting a score?
Mailwarm
@cyrus_elmtalab Yes, that’s exactly the behavior we want. Today, mailX gives the agent the diagnostic layer: what’s broken, why it matters, and what to fix first. The next step is turning that into clearer action states like “fix this first” or “safe to scale”, so agents can slow down before damaging the domain.
Mailwarm
@cyrus_elmtalab MailX Agent are mainly here to check if you apply your protocols properly they will not send on your behalf. We will give you the health check so your other agent can take decisions
@bengeekly That separation makes sense. A diagnostic health-check layer is safer than letting an agent send blindly. The useful next step would be a simple action state that another agent can read: pause sending, fix protocol issues, or safe to scale.
Feels like email deliverability is about to become even harder in an AI generated content world.
Do you think inbox providers will eventually start scoring 'AI-patterned behaviour' itself, beyond just SPF/DKIM/domain reputation?
Mailwarm
@surabhi_minocha We’re already moving in that direction in all transparency. I think inbox providers will increasingly score behavioural patterns, not just technical authentication.
As AI-generated outreach scales, signals like engagement quality, sending behaviour, personalization depth, and human-like interactions will probably matter even more than they do today.
Mailwarm
@surabhi_minocha I think they already look at behaviour patterns like engagement, complaint signals, and sending consistency, even if they don’t call it “AI patterns” yet. If AI content makes inboxes noisier, they’ll likely just tighten how they score engagement quality, not the content type itself.
Mailwarm
@surabhi_minocha Yes, and I think the issue won’t be “AI content” itself. It will be AI-scaled bad behavior: same patterns, same timing, same low relevance, too much volume. Inbox providers will punish that fast.
Are you already seeing this with AI-generated outbound?
Mailwarm
@surabhi_minocha Absolutely. I think the next layer will be behavioral reputation, not just technical reputation.
Inbox providers already analyze engagement and sending patterns, AI-generated content at scale will probably push them to detect “synthetic sender behavior” too: timing, personalization depth, reply patterns, campaign similarity, even how humans interact with the emails.
mailX by mailwarm
@surabhi_minocha Right now filtering is still mostly “who you are” (domain/IP/authentication) and “how people react.” But as AI-generated email scales, inbox providers will probably start looking more at behavioral and content patterns, things like repetition structures, predictability, engagement decay, sending cadence anomalies, and template fingerprints at scale.
Love the 'no guesswork' approach. We check our SPF/DKIM/DMARC manually every month but the inbox placement algorithms change so fast it’s hard to keep up. Does mailX give real-time feedback on spam trigger words in the actual copy too?
Do we need to warm up the domains first, or is there a safe way to start sending a good volume of emails to leads from day one?
Mailwarm
@abhishekr_ai You'd defo want some level of domain warm-up first. Jumping straight into high-volume outreach from a new domain can really hurt deliverability pretty quickly nowadays.
mailX is designed to help users monitor those signals and scale sending more safely over time but we have mailwarm designed for domain warmup :))
Mailwarm
@abhishekr_ai I’d first check the setup with mailX, then warm up gradually with Mailwarm if the domain is new or risky. High volume from day one is rarely safe.
Is it a fresh domain or one already used for sending?
mailX by mailwarm
@abhishekr_ai You still need some form of warm-up, there’s no truly “safe” way to hit high volume from day one on a fresh domain.
Mailwarm
@abhishekr_ai You wouldn't run a marathon without training. Email works the same way. Warm-up is the training. Skip it, and you feel every mile.