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American e-mail software company
Sendmail, Inc. is an email management business.
The company is headquartered in
Emeryville, CA
[1] with offices throughout the Americas,
Europe and
Asia .
History
The company was founded in 1999 by
Eric Allman in Emeryville, CA. Eric also created
sendmail , an open source
mail transfer agent while he was a student and a staff member at the
University of California, Berkeley . It is the commercial version of the open source version of sendmail.
[2]
Managing Email
In 2005, Sendmail released the Sentrion email infrastructure platform to address the need for full-content message inspection, enabling policy-based delivery[
clarification needed ] of all human and machine-generated email.
[3]
Hybrid Cloud
In 2012, Sendmail partnered with
Mimecast
[4] to provide hybrid-cloud email security, archiving and continuity as some predicted that 2013 would see more organizations implementing hybrid cloud computing strategies
[5] to reduce cost and complexity of their messaging infrastructure.
Machine-Generated Email
In 2012, Sendmail released Sentrion REAC (Rogue Email Application Control) amid growing security, compliance and other concerns posed by the growth of application-generated email
[6] and migration of email to the cloud.
[7]
Acquired by Proofpoint
In 2013, Sendmail was acquired by security-as-a-service company
Proofpoint, Inc.
[8]
Timeline
1998
Released Switch, the commercial MTA
2000
Released Sendmail
Milter API
2001
Released Mailstream Manager for email security and compliant policy management
2003
Released Mailcenter for the enterprise
[9]
2005
Shipped first Sentrion™ appliance
[10]
2006
Celebrated 25th anniversary of internet email (MTA)
[11]
2007
Shipped Sentrion MP ‘inbound & outbound’ Appliance
2008
Released Sentrion MPV and Sentrion™ MPQ
2009
Released Sentrion Cloud Services (SaaS)
[12]
2010
Opened Sentrion App Store (www.SentrionAppStore.com)
[13]
2011
Sendmail teams with Harris and BMC on trusted enterprise cloud
[14]
2011
Released Sentrion Critical Customer Communications Enterprise Application Suite
2012
Released Sentrion REAC (Rogue Email Application Control)
[15]
2013
Acquired by Proofpoint, Inc.
References
^
Rich's High-tech Business Guide to Silicon Valley and Northern California . Rich's Business Directories, Incorporated. 2003.
^ Costales, Bryan; Assmann, Claus; Jansen, George; Shapiro, Gregory Neil (2007-10-26).
sendmail: Build and Administer sendmail . "O'Reilly Media, Inc.".
ISBN
978-0-596-55534-4 .
^
Sendmail guards e-mail, Network World
Archived 2006-03-06 at the
Wayback Machine
^
Mimecast and Sendmail announce enterprise email collaboration, CloudPro
^
2013: Year of the hybrid cloud, Network World
^
Automated Emails: Are You Launching a Denial-of-Service Attack on Your Own Company?, ReadWriteWeb
^
Email in the Cloud: Avoid the Pitfalls, Windows IT Pro
^
"Proofpoint, Inc. Acquires Sendmail, Inc" . October 1, 2013. Retrieved 2017-02-22 .
^
http://www.cio.com/article/31725/Sendmail_Launches_Mailcenter_for_the_Enterprise, CIO
^
http://gcn.com/articles/2005/10/19/sendmail-incs-sentrion-appliance-allinone-email-security.aspx Sendmail Inc.'s Sentrion appliance: All-in-one e-mail security, GCN
Archived 2006-03-06 at the
Wayback Machine
^
Your mail server sucks!, InfoWorld
^
Sendmail introduces protection for the cloud, IT Examiner
Archived 2013-02-16 at
archive.today
^
Sendmail launches 'app store' for enterprise, TechWorld
^
Harris, Sendmail and BMC team up on Trusted Enterprise Cloud, ZDNet
^
Sendmail Launches 'Rogue Email Application Control' Appliance, SecurityWeek