Sendmail, Inc.


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

History

The company was founded in 1998 by Eric Allman, creator of the sendmail open source mail transfer agent.

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 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 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.

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