CMS Announces Praetor(R) Managed eMail Service; Offering Enhanced Email Security Over Traditional Outsourced Email Filtering Services.

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. -- Computer Mail Services, Inc. (CMS), a leading email security and management software provider, today announced the public availability of the Praetor Managed eMail (MeM) service. Designed for the small business community, this service offers the expert filtering enjoyed by large companies but without the need for dedicated administrative staff.

Praetor MeM is different from traditional outsourced email filtering services. With Praetor MeM, all corporate email is received, filtered and archived on a server at the customer's site and always under the customer's control. "Outsourced email filtering services usually operate on servers external to their client's email systems. The door is then open to security and confidentiality breaches, so many businesses cannot let an external filtering service control their email, even temporarily. Praetor MeM eliminates all these concerns," said Lih-Tah Wong, CMS President.

CMS technicians remotely install and configure Praetor MeM on a client's server. Then periodically, at prearranged times allowed by the customer, they remotely connect to the customer's Praetor MeM machine and check filtering effectiveness. To insure email privacy, CMS technicians can only access message headers and summary information. Complete reports of each check-up are delivered to the administrator and include reviews of filtering performance, summarization of Bayesian training and recommendations to improve its effectiveness.

Praetor MeM is fully customizable to the specific needs of each client to a level not available from outsourced email filtering services. Without the need to share resources among many clients, customization is not limited to white lists, banned text or other simple lists. Instead Praetor MeM can be customized to the specific needs of departments or individuals simply by requesting the development of site-specific rules.

Since there is no filtering resource shared among multiple clients, Praetor MeM eliminates the consequences of a spammer attack on one client overloading resources affecting others. Also, access to quarantined messages is never delayed by overloaded resources.

Customer feedback for the Praetor MeM service has already been positive. Matthew Cummings, administrator for the Yellow Pages Association stated, "Yes we are very happy with the service so far. Our tech at CMS has contacted me each week to check out how well the changes he has suggested have been working. We have noticed a drop in the amount of spam getting through to our end users and we have been able to reduce the amount of false positives. The new reporting features are great; they allow us to see very quickly what is happening with our Praetor install."

Praetor MeM is available now with prices starting at US$200 per year for 10 users. To provide the connectivity required, there is a separate annual charge for the GoToMyPC(R) secure remote control service.

For more information about the Praetor MeM service, visit the CMS website at www.cmsconnect.com or contact CMS by calling 800.883.2674 in the USA or +1 248.352.6700.

About Computer Mail Services, Inc.

Founded in 1982, Southfield, Michigan-based Computer Mail Services, Inc. (CMS) is a privately held company with expertise in the development of messaging related products. The company's Praetor product protects mail servers of thousands of organizations worldwide. Praetor is a registered trademark of Computer Mail Services, Inc.