Eric Allman, Sendmail Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder, to be Honored at 2006 Telluride Technology Festival; Author of First Internet Mail Program Being Recognized for Ground-Breaking Contributions to the Technology Industry.

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Eric Allman, Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Sendmail Inc., will be honored this week by the Telluride Technology Festival taking place August 11 - 13 in Telluride, CO. Allman, who authored sendmail, the world's first Internet mail program, will be recognized for his work and ongoing contributions to the technology industry.

Each year, the Telluride Technology Festival selects five honorees to receive the prestigious award and to give a presentation on their work. Honorees chosen exemplify the life, times and standard of contribution of world renowned inventors, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse and L.L. Nunn, entrepreneur and founder of the Telluride Association, who together built the world's first commercial grade AC power plant in Telluride. Past honorees include, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web; Murray Gell-Man, an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and discoverer of subatomic particles he named "quarks"; Freeman Dyson, a British-American physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum mechanics; Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer; and Vinton Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet.

"This is a fitting honor for a man whose contributions to the field of technology have been immense, but whose impact on the broader society has been even more profound," said Scott Brown, founder of the Telluride Technology Festival. "Our honorees actions and passions for the industry serve as examples of how one person can make a difference to many."

In 1982, while attending U.C. Berkeley, Allman developed sendmail, a mail transfer agent (MTA) designed to deliver email over the still relatively small (compared to today's Internet) ARPANET, which consisted of many smaller networks with vastly differing formats for e-mail headers. Sendmail soon became an important part of the Berkeley Software Distribution and continues to be the most widely used MTA today, delivering more than 70 percent of all email traffic worldwide. In 1998, Allman founded Sendmail, Inc. to do proprietary work on improving sendmail.

"My thanks to the Telluride Technology Festival for this prestigious award," said Allman. "It is an honor to be recognized in the company of such extraordinary talent; people who are making a significant impact on how we live our lives today and in the future."

About Sendmail Inc.

Sendmail, Inc. is a global provider of enterprise solutions for secure, dependable, and compliant messaging. Sendmail solutions help organizations eliminate unwanted messages, effectively manage their mail stream, and address regulatory compliance and corporate governance requirements. Customers across 33 countries and the majority of the Fortune 1000, rely on Sendmail to manage their end-to-end email security and infrastructure needs: gateway security, secure routing, policy management, outbound and internal mail management, and email access and storage. Sendmail is headquartered in Emeryville, CA, with offices and distributors in Europe, Asia and North America. Visit www.sendmail.com or call 1-87-SENDMAIL.

About the Telluride Technology Festival

The Telluride Technology Festival is a Celebration of the Past, Present and Future of Technology. The Tech Fest is based on the historical fact that in 1891, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse and Telluride's own L.L. Nunn built the world's first commercial grade AC power plant in Telluride. The intimate mountain environment of Telluride, Colorado continues to be an ideal environment for discussion and reflection. Each year, present day honorees are selected that exemplify the life, times and standard of contribution of Tesla, Westinghouse and Nunn, who not only changed the world, they electrified it. This year's Tech Fest will be held at the Conference Center in the Mountain Village. All presentations and panel discussions are free and open to the public. For more information, visit: www.techfestival.org.