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MailRUBot

Name: MailRUBot
Author: Mail Russia

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The mail.ru bot is a mail fetcher on behalf of the Mail.ru email service. Operated by Mail Russia.

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Assessment

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What is MailRUBot?

MailRUBot is a web crawler operated by Mail Russia. The mail.ru bot is a mail fetcher on behalf of the Mail.ru email service.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

MailRUBot

Operator

Mail Russia

Why it crawls your site

MailRUBot crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by Mail Russia as part of their link preview infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow MailRUBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Mail.RU_Bot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block MailRUBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Mail.RU_Bot
Disallow: /

# Allow MailRUBot full access
User-agent: Mail.RU_Bot
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Mail.RU_Bot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Mail Russia's documentation.