Sendmail Recognizes European Winners of Inaugural Innovation Award.BT, Postfix and Ecole des Mines de Paris Recognized as Significant Contributors Awards Presented at Sendmail An SMTP-based message transfer agent (MTA) that runs under Unix. Developed at the University of California at Berkeley by Eric Allman in 1981, sendmail stores and forwards more mail than any other MTA on the Internet. In 1998, Allman commercialized the product by forming Sendmail, Inc. (www.sendmail.com), which offers a GUI interface for modifying the configuration file instead of dealing directly with more than a thousand lines of text. Sendmail, Inc.'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 See Internet e-mail service. 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 IGS - IBM Global Services (IBM consulting organization) IGS - Idaho Gourd Society IGS - Identify Graphic Subrepertoire (ITU-T) IGS - IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification) Format (file extension) IGS - Image-Guided Surgery IGS - Imagery & Geospatial Support (NIMA) IGS - Imerslund-Grasbeck Syndrome IGS - Improved Gray Scale IGS - Improved Guidance System IGS - Inacom Government Systems, Inc.) 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 |
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