Electric Mail Announces Launch of PerimeterProtect Service; New Service Provides Enhanced Email SPAM and Virus Control Service for Businesses.

BURNABY, British Columbia -- Electric Mail, a provider of managed secure email services to businesses, today announced the immediate availability of an enhanced version of PerimeterProtect(TM), its comprehensive solution that delivers up-front email messaging protection and continuity through SPAM and content filtering, as well as virus blocking. PerimeterProtect offers improved message quarantining, enhanced reporting, policy and service control, as well as tighter integration with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2000 -- creating a fast, powerful and cost-effective solution that significantly reduces enterprise email headaches.

"PerimeterProtect has been an ideal solution for us, allowing us to virtually eliminate SPAM and safeguard our network and email servers," noted Christopher Black, Director of Technical Infrastructure at T&F Informa plc, an international provider of specialist information for the academic, professional and business communities. "Most importantly, we can completely control our use of the service but don't have to worry about maintaining or updating filters and mail rules. We have seen immediate benefit on our perimeter network through the sheer reduction in unwanted network traffic caused by SPAM/virus emails. In addition, it is very cost-effective, easy to use and configure. Email is a critical business application for T&F Informa, as it is for most companies. Frankly, I don't know of a business that doesn't need a product like PerimeterProtect."

"Enterprise customers, like T&F Informa, have fully embraced the advantages of outsourced email security services and are demanding tighter integration with their in-house mail servers," said Adam Hyde, Director of Product Strategy for Electric Mail. "PerimeterProtect provides robust and scalable SPAM and virus protection for corporate email systems, combined with an intuitive tool through which administrators and users can monitor and manage their email security protocols."

About PerimeterProtect

PerimeterProtect safeguards companies from unwanted, often obscene and productivity-robbing messages, while protecting customer email servers against denial-of-service and directory-harvest attacks. PerimeterProtect combines six filtering layers designed to identify 99% of SPAM with less than 0.01% false positives. The content filtering capabilities enable administrators to configure flexible profiles and policies via a Web-based console. This service helps minimize a company's exposure to inappropriate email content and can reduce server load caused by large email attachments.

PerimeterProtect's enhanced Quarantine Central (TM)offers users easy access to quarantined messages -- ensuring that no legitimate email is ever lost. Moreover, it gives users and administrators the ability to directly control "allow/deny" lists and view filtering reports. An "auto-allow" function is also available, automatically adding an email address to the "allow list" when it is sent two or more messages by the user.

Quarantine Summaries consolidate all SPAM and virus headers into a list for easy review. The list is delivered to each user's email account on a predetermined schedule, with message retrieval available via a link to the Quarantine Central Web interface. Users can customize report frequency, delivery time and filter the summary results based upon a configurable "SPAM score" range. Administrators can turn summaries on or off, control which users get summary reports and manage the report delivery "From" address.

Microsoft Exchange customers can synchronize PerimeterProtect with their Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2000 servers via a Windows-based LDAP synchronization tool. This ensures invalid accounts are blocked at the network perimeter and Exchange aliases, groups and directory information are automatically available to the web quarantine.

Availability & Pricing

PerimeterProtect is available now. For more information on pricing and features, please visit www.electricmail.com or call 800-419-7463.

About Electric Mail

Electric Mail, a wholly owned subsidiary of j2 Global Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:JCOM), develops and delivers customized, hosted and secure email solutions with seamless integration into a customer's existing systems. Serving corporations, partners and resellers since 1994, Electric Mail's comprehensive solutions provide cost savings, enhanced features, greater functionality and increased flexibility over competing email offerings without compromising security or administrative control. For more information, visit www.electricmail.com.