Sendmail, Inc.
Company typeSubsidiary of Proofpoint, Inc.
IndustryEmail Management
Founded1998
Headquarters
Emeryville, California
Key people
Glen D. Vondrick (President & CEO)
Gregory Shapiro (VP, Cloud Enablement) & CTO
ParentProofpoint, Inc. Edit this on Wikidata
WebsiteSendmail, Inc.

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, Berekely. 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

  1. ^ Rich's High-tech Business Guide to Silicon Valley and Northern California. Rich's Business Directories, Incorporated. 2003.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Sendmail guards e-mail, Network World Archived 2006-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Mimecast and Sendmail announce enterprise email collaboration, CloudPro
  5. ^ 2013: Year of the hybrid cloud, Network World
  6. ^ Automated Emails: Are You Launching a Denial-of-Service Attack on Your Own Company?, ReadWriteWeb
  7. ^ Email in the Cloud: Avoid the Pitfalls, Windows IT Pro
  8. ^ "Proofpoint, Inc. Acquires Sendmail, Inc". October 1, 2013. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  9. ^ http://www.cio.com/article/31725/Sendmail_Launches_Mailcenter_for_the_Enterprise, CIO
  10. ^ 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
  11. ^ Your mail server sucks!, InfoWorld
  12. ^ Sendmail introduces protection for the cloud, IT Examiner Archived 2013-02-16 at archive.today
  13. ^ Sendmail launches 'app store' for enterprise, TechWorld
  14. ^ Harris, Sendmail and BMC team up on Trusted Enterprise Cloud, ZDNet
  15. ^ Sendmail Launches 'Rogue Email Application Control' Appliance, SecurityWeek
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