Sendmail Expands Current Available Market to 50% of Global Mail Servers Through Support of Postfix

press release

Allows Global 1000 Enterprises to Standardize on One Secure Content Management Solution for Trusted Communications Regardless of Mail Server

EMERYVILLE, Calif. – November 15, 2006 – Sendmail, Inc., the leading global provider of trusted messaging today, announced that starting in Q1 2007 the Sendmail Trusted Unified Messaging Platform (TrUMP) will support the Postfix Open Source Mail Transfer Agent (MTA). In addition to support of Postfix, Sendmail is honoring Postfix founder Wietse Venema, today at a ceremony in London. Venema will receive an inaugural Sendmail Innovation Award for extending Milter (mail filter) functionality to the Postfix MTA.

Originally developed as an alternative to the Sendmail MTA, Postfix has a solid presence within large global enterprises. Support of Postfix is a significant step in offering Global 1000 customers the choice and flexibility of using Sendmail’s trusted messaging solutions regardless of the installed mail server. Postfix support extends Sendmail’s reach to an additional 15% of the market, and a combined 50% of all mail servers on the Internet.

“The Postfix MTA has offered the market an important Open Source alternative, playing a significant role in ensuring secure message delivery,” said Donald J. Massaro, Sendmail CEO. “By supporting Postfix, enterprises using Postfix MTAs will be able to plug into Sendmail’s Trusted Unified Messaging Platform to enable clean, compliant, secure and authenticated messaging without making a change in their MTA of choice.” Sendmail’s support of Postfix demonstrates the company’s commitment to provide its customers with a truly open, end-to-end messaging solution that spans the needs of the Secure Content Management market. As announced on October 25th, Sendmail’s TrUMP allows enterprise to use one centralized policy management platform to enforce security measures to prevent spam, viruses and phishing attempts in addition to outbound compliance threats – 80% of which are contained in email.

“Postfix was founded to offer users a Sendmail-like alternative that attempts to be fast, easy to administer and secure,” said Wietse Venema, founder of Postfix and renowned software developer. “Postfix admires Sendmail’s contribution to the Open Source community. By offering support of Postfix they are not only recognizing our (Postfix) presence in the market but also extending our capabilities.”

In early 2007, Sendmail will interoperate with Postfix to provide the following strategic capabilities:

Secure Content Management: Enforce content management policies for clean, compliant, secure and authenticated messaging
Directory-driven Security: Sendmail’s best practice for secure LDAP implementation will be accessible when using Postfix MTAs
SMTP Connection Regulation: Prevention of denial of service and directory harvest attacks; improvement in email quality of service
Forensics and Reporting: Postfix MTA statistics will be supported in Sendmail’s auditing tools

Availability

Sendmail support of Postfix will be available in Q1 2007.

About Sendmail, Inc.
Sendmail is the leading supplier of bi-directional message processing security appliances. With over 25 years of leadership delivering innovative messaging technology, Sendmail ensures the protection and trust of employee and customer communications. Sendmail technology, driven by the industry's most powerful and flexible policy engine, provides protection where 80 percent of security and compliance violations occur - within inbound and outbound messaging. Large enterprises in 33 countries, and the majority of the Fortune 1000, trust Sendmail to shield its users from unwanted messages, defend the messaging infrastructure, stop data and privacy leaks and effectively manage messaging to maintain brand and shareholder value and support regulatory compliance. Sendmail is headquartered in Emeryville, Calif. with offices and distributors throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.

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