Sendmail Recognizes European Winners of Inaugural Innovation Award.

BT, Postfix and Ecole des Mines de Paris Recognized as Significant Contributors

Awards Presented at Sendmail's 25th Anniversary of Internet Mail European Celebration

LONDON & EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Sendmail, Inc., the leading global provider of trusted messaging, today announced the winners of the European Sendmail Innovation Awards program. The awards acknowledged inventive uses of Sendmail technology throughout organizations in Europe, promoting and rewarding developments in messaging communications.

The Sendmail Innovation Awards honored companies in three categories: Innovative Use of the Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent (MTA); Sendmail Milter Innovation and Innovative Open Source Contribution. Drawing from Sendmail's roots in innovation and a new initiative to restore trusted messaging, Sendmail selected the award winners after evaluating hundreds of enterprise deployment scenarios and contributions through the Sendmail Open Source community. Each of the winners demonstrated excellence in developing one-of-a-kind Internet Mail solutions showing unusual creativity, providing best practice standards and providing measurable impact on solving real-world problems.

"More than 65 percent of global communications is reliant upon Sendmail. As a result, there have been many ground-breaking contributions through the Open Source community and unique customer implementations that deserve recognition," said Donald J. Massaro, Sendmail CEO. "We congratulate this impressive list of European award winners."

The 2006 Sendmail Innovation Award winners for Europe include:

Innovative Use of the Sendmail MTA

BT - Project Director, Alan Williams and Lead Architect, Mike Pannell for the Internet Gateway Service (IGS) team, which provides a secure, fully redundant Email Gateway for the UK Government. IGS has set the standard for email content inspection and delivery. A large proportion of Sendmail's architectural expertise was proven during the building of these gateways; one of the largest and most complex implementations ever built on Sendmail - both Open Source and commercial - anywhere.

"The BT IGS team is excited about the work it's accomplished with Sendmail over several years to develop an email technology roadmap," said Project Director, Alan Williams of BT. "We have developed some ground breaking content delivery policies to meet the exacting standards of our customer. Sendmail has been with us all the way and we look forward to many more years of this working relationship."

Sendmail Milter Innovation

Postfix - Wietse Venema, author for his contribution of extending Milter functionality to the Postfix MTA. This significant achievement underscores the value of the Milter API and its importance to Trusted Internet Communications.

Innovative Open Source Contribution

Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz, Ecole des Mines de Paris - for his contributions to libmilter (the library that implements the Milter protocol and provides the API to applications). This contribution delivered an alternative implementation of the threading model, providing improved performance for operating systems such as Linux.

About Sendmail, Inc.

Sendmail is a leading global provider of trusted messaging for clean, secure, compliant and authenticated communications. Based on the world's first Internet Mail Server, developed 25 years ago by Sendmail founder Eric Allman, only Sendmail provides enterprises directory-driven, policy-based message processing to address both internal and external threats via a single, integrated and open platform. Large enterprises across 33 countries, including the majority of the Fortune 1000, rely on Sendmail to protect sensitive data and intellectual property, eliminate unwanted messages and effectively manage their mail stream to maintain brand and shareholder value, and comply with security and regulatory policies. Sendmail is headquartered in Emeryville, CA, with offices and distributors in Europe, Asia and North America. For more information visit www.sendmail.com