Sendmail, Inc. is an email management business.
 Sendmail Headquarters | |
| Company type | Subsidiary of Proofpoint, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Industry | Email Management |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Emeryville, California |
Key people | Glen D. Vondrick (President & CEO) Gregory Shapiro (VP, Cloud Enablement) & CTO |
| Parent | Proofpoint, Inc.  |
| Website | Sendmail, Inc. |
The company is headquartered in Emeryville, CA[1] with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.
History
editThe 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
editIn 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
editIn 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
editIn 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
editIn 2013, Sendmail was acquired by security-as-a-service company Proofpoint, Inc.[8]
Timeline
edit- 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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Sendmail Launches Mailcenter for the Enterprise Archived 2013-02-15 at archive.today
- ^ 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