| London, UK – 16th November, 2006 – Sendmail, Inc., the leading global provider of trusted messaging, today announced the winners of the European Sendmail Innovation Awards programme. The awards acknowledged inventive uses of Sendmail technology throughout
organisations in Europe, promoting and rewarding developments in messaging communications.
The Sendmail Innovation Awards honoured companies in three categories: Innovative Use of the
Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent (MTA); Sendmail Milter Innovation and Innovative Open Source
Contribution. Drawing from Sendmail’s roots in innovation and a new initiative to restore trusted
messaging, Sendmail selected the award winners after evaluating hundreds of enterprise
deployment scenarios and contributions through the Sendmail Open Source community. Each of
the winners demonstrated excellence in developing one-of-a-kind Internet Mail solutions showing
unusual creativity, providing best practice standards and providing measurable impact on solving
real-world problems.
"More than 65% of global communications is reliant upon Sendmail. As a result, there have been
many ground-breaking contributions through the Open Source community and unique customer
implementations that deserve recognition,” said Donald J. Massaro, Sendmail CEO. “We
congratulate this impressive list of European award winners.”
The 2006 Sendmail Innovation Award winners for Europe include:
Innovative Use of the Sendmail MTA
BT - Project Director, Alan Williams and Lead Architect, Mike Pannell for the Internet Gateway
Service (IGS) team, which provides a secure, fully redundant Email Gateway for the UK
Government. IGS has set the standard for email content inspection and delivery. A large
proportion of Sendmail's architectural expertise was proven during the building of these
gateways; one of the largest and most complex implementations ever built on Sendmail - both
Open Source and commercial - anywhere.
"The BT IGS team is excited about the work its accomplished with Sendmail over several years to
develop an email technology roadmap," said Project Director, Alan Williams of BT. "We have
developed some ground breaking content delivery policies to meet the exacting standards of our
customer. Sendmail has been with us all the way and we look forward to many more years of this
working relationship.”
Sendmail Milter Innovation
Postfix - Wietse Venema, author for his contribution of extending Milter functionality to the Postfix MTA. This significant achievement underscores the value of the Milter API and its importance to
Trusted Internet Communications.
Innovative Open Source Contribution
Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz, Ecole des Mines de Paris – for his contributions to libmilter (the
library that implements the Milter protocol and provides the API to applications). This contribution
delivered an alternative implementation of the threading model, providing improved performance
for operating systems such as Linux. |