mail.ru
Mail.ru content fetcher
About this crawler
mail.ru is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern mail\.ru in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block mail.ru traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.33%
Technical details
- Name
- mail.ru
- Pattern
mail\.ru- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- https://knownagents.com/agents/mailrubot
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- rDNS suffixes
.mail.ru- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely mail.ru with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.mail.ru
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; https://top.mail.ru/passremind) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow mail.ru:
User-agent: mail.ru
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} mail\.ru [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "mail\\.ru") {
return 403;
}
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