Sendmail, Inc. Explained

Sendmail, Inc.
Type:Subsidiary of Proofpoint, Inc.
Industry:Email Management
Location City:Emeryville, California
Key People:Glen D. Vondrick (President & CEO)
Gregory Shapiro (VP, Cloud Enablement) & CTO

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 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.

    • Notes and References

    1. Book: Rich's High-tech Business Guide to Silicon Valley and Northern California . 2003 . Rich's Business Directories, Incorporated . en.
    2. Book: Costales . Bryan . sendmail: Build and Administer sendmail . Assmann . Claus . Jansen . George . Shapiro . Gregory Neil . 2007-10-26 . "O'Reilly Media, Inc." . 978-0-596-55534-4 . en.
    3. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091205-sendmail.html Sendmail guards e-mail, Network World
    4. http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/saas/5090/mimecast-and-sendmail-announce-enterprise-email-collaboration Mimecast and Sendmail announce enterprise email collaboration, CloudPro
    5. http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2012/enterprise6/120312-ecs-hybrid-cloud-264443.html 2013: Year of the hybrid cloud, Network World
    6. http://readwrite.com/2012/08/15/automated-emails-are-you-launching-a-denial-of-service-attack-on-your-own-company Automated Emails: Are You Launching a Denial-of-Service Attack on Your Own Company?, ReadWriteWeb
    7. http://windowsitpro.com/blog/email-cloud-avoid-pitfalls Email in the Cloud: Avoid the Pitfalls, Windows IT Pro
    8. Web site: Proofpoint, Inc. Acquires Sendmail, Inc.. October 1, 2013. 2017-02-22.
    9. http://www.cio.com/article/31725/Sendmail_Launches_Mailcenter_for_the_Enterprise Sendmail Launches Mailcenter for the Enterprise
    10. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/091205-sendmail.html Sendmail Inc.'s Sentrion appliance: All-in-one e-mail security, GCN
    11. http://www.infoworld.com/t/e-mail/your-mail-server-sucks-064 Your mail server sucks!, InfoWorld
    12. http://www.itexaminer.com/sendmail-introduces-protection-for-the-cloud.aspx Sendmail introduces protection for the cloud, IT Examiner
    13. http://news.techworld.com/applications/3211003/sendmail-launches-app-store-for-enterprise/ Sendmail launches 'app store' for enterprise, TechWorld
    14. https://web.archive.org/web/20110926190932/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/virtualization/harris-sendmail-and-bmc-team-up-on-trusted-enterprise-cloud/3660 Harris, Sendmail and BMC team up on Trusted Enterprise Cloud, ZDNet
    15. http://www.securityweek.com/sendmail-launches-rogue-email-application-control-appliance Sendmail Launches 'Rogue Email Application Control' Appliance, SecurityWeek

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