Sendmail Inc., Named by eWEEK as Finalist in 5th Annual Excellence Awards Program; Sendmail's Mailstream Content Manager Benchmarks Email Management and Security Technologies.

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Sendmail, Inc., the global provider of email security infrastructure, announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the IT industry's leading enterprise magazines, has named Sendmail's MailStream Content Manager 1.0 a finalist in eWEEK's Fifth Annual Excellence Awards program, in the Email Management and Security category. Winners will be honored at a special ceremony on April 26, 2005 in Boston, MA. Analysis of the winning products and services will also be published in a special report in the April 11th edition of eWEEK and at www.eweek.com.

"We are honored to be recognized by eWEEK as a leader in email management and security," said JF Sullivan, Director of Product Management, of Sendmail, Inc. "Our customers increasingly need to deal with more and more sophisticated virus, spam and malware attacks, in addition to ensuring their internal email policies are strictly adhered to. Mailstream Content Manager gives them a unique and flexible platform to manage both their external and internal email security."

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries is a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners - senior enterprise IT professionals who act as reader representatives.

"We've seen a lot of impressive entries in the five years that we've been conducting the Excellence Awards program, but this year's entries really illustrate the tremendous effort the industry is making to respond to the demands of enterprise IT professionals," said Eric Lundquist, Editor-in-Chief, eWEEK. "The Excellence Awards judges saw an impressive maturity and sophistication in the entries in critical areas."

eWEEK is the essential technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure. eWEEK helps its readers successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage. The publication delivers breaking news, technology evaluations, and strategic analysis on the technologies, platforms and trends that affect enterprise-wide computing.

Products and services were awarded in the following categories:

--Analytics & Reporting

--Application Development

--Business Integration Systems

--Business Relationship Management

--Desktop & Mobile Hardware

--E-Business Foundations

--E-Mail Management & Security

--Enterprise Collaboration 

--Enterprise Storage Hardware

--Enterprise Storage Software

--IT Quality Assurance Tools

--Productivity Applications

--Server Hardware

--Networking & Management Tools

--Networking Infrastructure

--Systems & Application Management

--Authentication & User Management

--Network Data-stream Protection

--Vulnerability Assessment & Remediation

About eWEEK

eWEEK, "the enterprise newsweekly," is the essential technology information source for builders of enterprise infrastructure. eWEEK enables readers to successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage. The publication delivers to its readers breaking news, technology evaluations, and strategic analysis on the technologies, platforms, and trends that impact enterprise-wide computing. eWEEK reaches 400,100 enterprise technology buyers who are evaluating and purchasing technology solutions for their company. eWEEK delivers news, analysis and technology reviews in print weekly and on a daily basis on the Web.

About Sendmail, Inc.

Sendmail, Inc. is a global provider of email security infrastructure for large enterprises that depend on email to run their business. With trusted technology and expertise, the company delivers a complete platform for protecting and controlling email from the gateway to the mailbox, including spam and virus protection, perimeter traffic control and sophisticated message processing for compliance. More than half the world's largest enterprises rely on Sendmail products to manage and protect their email networks. Sendmail is headquartered in Emeryville, CA, with offices and distributors in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America. For more information on Sendmail, Inc., visit www.sendmail.com or call 1-87-SENDMAIL or 1-877-363-6245.

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