Sendmail, Inc. is an email management business. The company is headquartered in Emeryville, CA with offices throughout the Americas,

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History

The company was founded in 1999 by

Eric Allman Eric Paul Allman (born September 2, 1955) is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. In 1998, Allman and Greg Olson co-founded the company Sendmail ...

in Emeryville, CA. Eric also created

sendmail Sendmail is a general purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and delivery methods, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) used for email transport over the Internet. A descendant of t ...

, an open source

mail transfer agent Within the Internet email system, a message transfer agent (MTA), mail transfer agent, or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. In some contexts, the a ...

while he was a student and a staff member at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. It is the commercial version of the open source version of sendmail.

Managing Email

In 2005, Sendmail released the Sentrion email infrastructure platform to address the need for full-content message inspection, enabling policy-based delivery of all human and machine-generated email.

Hybrid Cloud

In 2012, Sendmail partnered with

Mimecast Mimecast Limited is an American–British, UK-domiciled company with subsidiaries in other jurisdictions, specializing in cloud-based email management for Google Workspace, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365, including security, arc ...

to provide hybrid-cloud email security, archiving and continuity as some predicted that 2013 would see more organizations implementing hybrid cloud computing strategies to reduce cost and complexity of their messaging infrastructure.

Machine-Generated Email

In 2012, Sendmail released Sentrion REAC (Rogue Email Application Control) amid growing security, compliance and other concerns posed by the growth of application-generated email and migration of email to the cloud.

Acquired by Proofpoint

In 2013, Sendmail was acquired by security-as-a-service company

Proofpoint, Inc. Proofpoint, Inc. is an American enterprise cybersecurity company based in Sunnyvale, California that provides software as a service and products for Email security#Privacy concerns, email security, identity threat defense, data loss preventio ...

Timeline

;1998: Released Switch, the commercial MTA ;2000: Released Sendmail

Milter Milter (portmanteau for ''mail filter'') is an extension to the widely used open source mail transfer agents (MTA) Sendmail and Postfix. It allows administrators to add mail filters for filtering spam or viruses in the mail-processing chain. I ...

API ;2001: Released Mailstream Manager for email security and compliant policy management ;2003: Released Mailcenter for the enterprise ;2005: Shipped first Sentrion™ appliance ;2006: Celebrated 25th anniversary of internet email (MTA) ;2007: Shipped Sentrion MP ‘inbound & outbound’ Appliance ;2008: Released Sentrion MPV and Sentrion™ MPQ ;2009: Released Sentrion Cloud Services (SaaS) ;2010: Opened Sentrion App Store (www.SentrionAppStore.com) ;2011: Sendmail teams with Harris and BMC on trusted enterprise cloud ;2011: Released Sentrion Critical Customer Communications Enterprise Application Suite ;2012: Released Sentrion REAC (Rogue Email Application Control)Sendmail Launches 'Rogue Email Application Control' Appliance, SecurityWeek
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References

{{reflist Computer security software Software companies established in 1998 1998 establishments in California Companies based in Emeryville, California Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area 2013 mergers and acquisitions Defunct software companies of the United States